Henrietta Battier
Irish poet and satirist
Irish poet and satirist
Eliza Lo Chin, M.D., has drawn inspiration from her female colleagues who strive to combine family responsibilities with a career in medicine. She has collected their experiences in her book, This Side of Doctoring: Reflections From Women in Medicine, published in 2002. For her continuing work on women’s issues in medicine, Dr. Chin was nominated for the New York branch of the American Medical Women’s Association’s Outstanding Woman Physician Award for the year 2000.
24th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress
Irish-English writer, feminist, and art historian
1800s baroness of Dufferin and Clandeboye, countess of Gifford, author and songwriter
Cryptanalyst and pioneer in U.S. cryptology
Jesmyn Ward is the acclaimed author of the novels “Where the Line Bleeds,” “Salvage the Bones,” winner of the 2011 National Book Award, and “Sing, Unburied, Sing,” winner of the 2017 National Book Award. Her nonfiction work includes the memoir “Men We Reaped,” a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the 2020 work “Navigate Your Stars.”
Gwendolyn Brooks was an exceptional and influential poet, whose talent was to engulf her readers in her world.
Highly successful, prolific, comic and realistic New Zealand literature writer.
Founder and President of the Children’s Defense Fund and an advocate for disadvantaged Americans for her entire professional life.