Hisaye Yamamoto
Southern California Nisei writer of short stories Hisaye Yamamoto (1921–2011) was among the first Japanese American writers to win national renown after World War II.
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Momoko Iko
Playwright and writer Momoko Iko (1940-2020) was the author of several acclaimed plays as well as prose, poetry, and fiction.
Dr Claudia Albarrán
Mexican researcher, professor, essayist and literary critic
Dr Yolanda Zamora
Mexican writer and journalist
Tununa Mercado
Argentine researcher and writer
Wakako Yamauchi
Distinguished playwright, short-story writer, poet and painter.
Maud Palmer Hart Lovelace
Best known for her Betsy-Tacy series of thirteen books, she authored six historical novels for adults as well as five additional books for children.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder was sixty-five when she published Little House in the Big Woods, a novel for young readers inspired by her childhood in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Her book, and the others that followed, made her an icon of children’s literature.
Maria Sanford
One of the first female professors in the United States, Maria Sanford was an English professor at the University of Minnesota for nearly thirty years.
Meridel Le Sueur
For more than seventy years, the Minnesota-based writer and activist Meridel Le Sueur was a voice for oppressed peoples worldwide. Beginning in the 1920s, she championed the struggles of workers against the capitalist economy, the efforts of women to find their voices and their power, the rights of American Indians to their lands and their cultures, and environmentalist causes.