Portrait of an Artist as a Young Woman

“Spent most of my reading time with my jaw dropped–I was way too timid to navigate the 60s as this ‘cyborg goddess’ did. Wow, did I miss a lot! The book is both a romp and a history lesson, giving you the adventures of a brave (and yeah foolish) young woman in an outrageous time. Do give it a go. Especially if you weren’t there or weren’t that reckless yourself. You can live it all vicariously… as I did.” – Ann Medlock, novelist and award-winning public radio commentator.“For some of us the book is a reminder; for younger women it’s a revelation of what was an entirely unique college experience.” – Darryle Pollack, Author, I Never Signed Up for This “In one sense, …a fierce feminist treatise cataloguing the innumerable obstacles encountered by a young woman artist as she discovers, over and over, that the world of successful art is a man’s world. But at the same time the novel is a gripping account of the late ‘60s counterculture and its free love movement, sketching out all the confusions and entanglements that eventually beset all those who took the anti-Establishment message seriously.This is transcendent stuff, folks; and not only will anyone who reads this book be richly rewarded, but anyone who does not will have missed something truly unique.” – Steven K. Sharp, author, On the Skin of the Molten Iron

Alexis Krasilovsky is an award-winning filmmaker known for documentaries such as Let Them Eat Cake and Women Behind the Camera. She was born in Alaska, has traveled to twenty countries, and survived sexual assault at gunpoint. Her first film, End of the Art World, made during her undergraduate studies, featured prominent artists Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, and Jasper Johns.

Krasilovsky is also a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet. Her pandemic poetry film, The Parking Lot of Dreams, adapts poems from her book, Watermelon Linguistics: New and Selected Poems. She is the author of Great Adaptations: Screenwriting and Global Storytelling and Women Behind the Camera, and co-author of Shooting Women: Behind the Camera, Around the World.

She is a Professor Emerita of Screenwriting at California State University, Northridge, and resides in Los Angeles.

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