author
Helen R. (Helen Rose) Hull
1888–1971
A sharp, observant novelist and longtime creative writing teacher, this American author wrote fiction that often explored women’s inner lives, family tensions, and social expectations. Her work was admired in its day and has continued to draw interest from later readers of early 20th-century women’s fiction.
12 Audiobooks
Labyrinth
by Helen R. (Helen Rose) Hull
Separation
by Helen R. (Helen Rose) Hull
The fire
by Helen R. (Helen Rose) Hull
Waiting
by Helen R. (Helen Rose) Hull
Alley ways
by Helen R. (Helen Rose) Hull
The fusing
by Helen R. (Helen Rose) Hull
With the one coin for fee
by Helen R. (Helen Rose) Hull
The telling of the bees
by Helen R. (Helen Rose) Hull
Groping
by Helen R. (Helen Rose) Hull
Discovery
by Helen R. (Helen Rose) Hull
Clay-shuttered doors
by Helen R. (Helen Rose) Hull
And life is better
by Helen R. (Helen Rose) Hull
About the author
Born in Albion, Michigan, in 1888, Helen Rose Hull became known as a novelist, short-story writer, feminist, and teacher. She studied in the Midwest before moving into an academic career, teaching at Wellesley and Barnard and later spending decades teaching creative writing at Columbia University.
Alongside her teaching, she built a substantial writing career that included novels and short fiction published across many years. Her best-known work includes Heat Lightning, and her fiction is often remembered for its clear psychological insight and close attention to the pressures of domestic and social life.
Hull was also part of a wider community of independent women writers and thinkers in New York. She died in 1971, but her books still appeal to readers interested in smart, emotionally perceptive fiction from the first half of the 20th century.