Mary Davys
Irish novelist, playwright, and poet
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Rhoda Coghill
Irish pianist, composer, and poet
Assia Djebar
Best known by her pen name Assia Djebar, Fatima-Zohra Imalayen was an Algerian feminist novelist, translator and filmmaker, considered one of North Africa’s most influential writers.
Josephine Preston Peabody
American poet and dramatist
Mina Loy
She consorted with the major 20th-century avant-garde movements—Futurism, Dada, and Surrealism, and wrote poems, plays, and experimental prose; created drawings, paintings, sculptures, and assemblages; designed lampshades, toys, Christmas lights, cleaning tools, and corselets.
Gertrude Stein
American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector
Denise Levertov
Denise Levertov remains an influential poet of the mid-twentieth century American group known as the Black Mountain School.
Djuna Barnes
She acted and wrote plays for Provincetown Theater in Massachusetts; she also became a highly paid journalist. In 1921, she was sent to Paris by McCall’s Magazine to study and write about the expatriate movement. She became friends with famous writers and artists including Mina Loy. She frequently visited Natalie Barney’s salon, to read and discuss literature. It was the environment at Barney’s salon that inspired Barnes to write Ladies Almanack (American Women).
Kathleen Fraser
American poet, writer, and visual artist
Marianne Moore
Her Collected Poems won the Pulitzer Prize (1951), the National Book Award (1952), and the Bollingen Prize (1953).