Tillie Olsen
American writer and activist
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Nobuko Yoshiya
Japanese novelist known for her prolific career during the Taishō and Shōwa periods
May Crommelin
Irish author and traveller
Aurora Cáceres
Peruvian writer and feminist active in the early 20th-century feminist movement in South America and recognized for her contributions to Peruvian literature, particularly through her novels and essays.
Willa Cather
Pulitzer-winning American author known for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Canadian author best known for her series of novels beginning with “Anne of Green Gables,” published in 1908.
Gloria Naylor
American novelist best known for her debut work, “The Women of Brewster Place” (1982), which won the National Book Award for First Novel in 1983.
Radclyffe Hall
Distinguished English poet and author renowned for her pioneering novel, “The Well of Loneliness,” a groundbreaking position in lesbian literature.
Mary Sidney
Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, was a distinguished Englishwoman known for her poetry and literary support.
Moa Martinson
Prominent figure in Sweden’s proletarian literature