Alice Adams
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.
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Anna Margaret Ross
Irish writer
Esther Martinez
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.”
Harriet Hanson Robinson
In 1881 Harriet Hanson Robinson became one of the founders of the Massachusetts chapter of the National Woman Suffrage Association
Caroline Blackwood
Irish writer
Emily Tapscott Clark
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
Adriana Trigiani is an award-winning author, playwright, screenwriter, and documentary filmmaker.
Nella Larsen
Harlem Renaissance writer
Aura Xilonen
Mexican writer, screenwriter and filmmaker.
Ayari Velázquez
Mexican writer