harriet beecher stowe entered as a best seller and a pulp fiction writer. someone who wrote very important fiction and huge historical impact but not as an artist. one thing i tried to do in my book is to contest that attitude. we don't have an american jane austen or woman novelist with the same status. that has to be challenged. we have to say all these women writers producing artistically significant work who never got the attention they deserve. we need to dismantle this. if you read reviews in england they won't be quite the same balance there is in american and there are a lot more venues for book reviewing and great britain than the united states and a lot more different voices in each publication and they are dwindling. >> two questions related to what you mentioned. first one is when you said it is written by a female author it is friendly but by mela their -- can that be attributable to gender discrimination? just out of curiosity, why male writers versus female writers is it 60/40? and also the reviewer's? 60/40? >> i can't answer very precisely