By bravely exploring experiences of immigrant families, heritage, memories, and poignant struggles, Amy Tan’s writing makes sense of the present through the past and adds ground-breaking narrative to the diverse sweep of American life and literature.
Alice Adams was the author of eleven novels and six collections of short stories, and was the recipient of an O. Henry Award for short fiction twenty-three times.
Irish writer
Esther Martinez was a linguist and storyteller for the Tewa people of New Mexico. She was given the Tewa name P’oe Tsawa (meaning Blue Water) and was also known by “Ko’oe Esther” and “Aunt Esther.”
In 1881 Harriet Hanson Robinson became one of the founders of the Massachusetts chapter of the National Woman Suffrage Association
Irish writer
Emily Tapscott Clark was a writer and the founding editor of The Reviewer, a literary magazine that helped spark the Southern Literary Renaissance—a movement in southern letters that turned away from glorifying the Old South in sentimental narratives and instead moved toward writing about themes of race, gender, identity, and the burden of history in the South.
Adriana Trigiani is an award-winning author, playwright, screenwriter, and documentary filmmaker.
Harlem Renaissance writer
Mexican writer, screenwriter and filmmaker.