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Donna Woolfolk Cross
Donna Woolfolk Cross (born 1947) is an American writer and the author of the novel "Pope Joan", about a female Catholic Pope from 853 to 855. She is the daughter of Dorothy Woolfolk, a pioneering woman in the American comic book industry, and of novelist William Woolfolk.
Biography.
Donna Woolfolk Cross received her bachelor's degree in English from the University of Pennsylvania in 1969, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. She worked as an editorial assistant for the London, England, publishing
husband, novelist William Woolfolk, during her stint at DC, when she rejected a script he had submitted for a Superman comic book.
Woolfolk's daughter, Donna Woolfolk Cross, is also an author; her work includes the historical novel "Pope Joan" (Ballantine, 1996).
Woolfolk, who lived on the Upper West Side of Manhattan while working in comics and as an author, moved to Norfolk, Virginia, in 1996. Two years later, she began to reside at the St. Francis Nursing Center