Editing Teresa of Ávila (section)

=== Literature ===
* [[Simone de Beauvoir]] singles out Teresa as a woman who truly lived life for herself (and perhaps the only woman to do so) in her book ''[[The Second Sex]]''.{{sfn|Beauvoir|2011|p=729}}
* She is mentioned prominently in [[Kathryn Harrison]]'s novel ''Poison''.{{sfn|Harrison|1995|p=}} The main character, Francisca De Luarca, is fascinated by her life.
* [[Don DeLillo]] in ''[[End Zone]]'' depicted Teresa as a saint who eats from a human skull to remind herself of final things. 
* [[R. A. Lafferty]] was strongly inspired by ''[[El Castillo Interior]]'' when he wrote his novel ''Fourth Mansions''. Quotations from St. Teresa's work are frequently used as chapter headings.{{sfn|Lafferty|1999|p=}}
* [[Pierre Klossowski]] prominently features Saint Teresa of Ávila in his metaphysical novel ''[[The Baphomet]]''.{{sfn|Klossowski|1998|p=}}
* [[George Eliot]] compared Dorothea Brooke to St. Teresa in ''[[Middlemarch]]'' (1871–1872) and wrote briefly about the life and works of St. Teresa in the "Prelude" to the novel.{{sfn|Maynard|2009|pp=77–80}}
* [[Thomas Hardy]] took Saint Teresa as the inspiration for much of the characterisation of the heroine Tess (Teresa) Durbeyfield, in ''[[Tess of the d'Urbervilles]]'' (1891), most notably the scene in which she lies in a field and senses her soul ecstatically above her.{{sfn|Moore|1990|p=25}}
* The contemporary poet [[Jorie Graham]] features Saint Teresa in the poem ''Breakdancing'' in her volume ''The End of Beauty''.{{sfn|Graham|1999|p=}}
* [[Bárbara Mujica (writer)|Bárbara Mujica]]'s novel ''[[Sister Teresa (novel)|Sister Teresa]]'', while not strictly hagiographical, is based upon Teresa's life.<ref group=web name=washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com />
* [[Timothy Findley]]'s 1999 novel ''[[Pilgrim (Timothy Findley novel)|Pilgrim]]'' features Saint Teresa as a minor character.{{sfn|Findley|1999|p=}}
* [[Vita Sackville-West]] wrote a double biography contrasting the two Carmelites Teresa of Avila and Thérèse of Lisieux, ''The Eagle and the Dove'', re-issued in 2018.{{sfn|Sackville-West|2011|p=}}