Rebecca Chace

She edited the landmark 1970 anthology “Sisterhood Is Powerful,” led Ms. magazine and helped build the institutions of the modern feminist movement.

Spurning the free verse of many of his contemporaries, he held to an older tradition. He also wrote spirited poems for children.

A short story writer for four decades, her own tale was a rare Cinderella story in publishing, centering on a septuagenarian and a young editor.

She explored the struggles of young women in the novel “The L-Shaped Room” but found her biggest success with a children’s book about a magical cupboard.

One of Britain’s most ambitious and intellectual novelists, she won the Booker Prize with “Possession,” her 1990 tale of illicit love spanning two centuries.

“You are my voice in English,” Gabriel García Márquez told her. She insisted that her name appear on the covers of books she translated, including with that of Cervantes.