Ada Limón
24th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress
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Anna Brownell Jameson
Irish-English writer, feminist, and art historian
Helena Blackwood
1800s baroness of Dufferin and Clandeboye, countess of Gifford, author and songwriter
Elizebeth Smith Friedman
Cryptanalyst and pioneer in U.S. cryptology
Jesmyn Ward
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
Gwendolyn Brooks was an exceptional and influential poet, whose talent was to engulf her readers in her world.
Mary Scott
Highly successful, prolific, comic and realistic New Zealand literature writer.
Marian Wright Edelman
Founder and President of the Children’s Defense Fund and an advocate for disadvantaged Americans for her entire professional life.
Alice Guy-Blaché
She was a pioneer of the French and American film industries during the silent era and the first woman to have a career as a director, yet her work and career have largely been overlooked throughout history.
Louisa Baker
Louisa Alice Baker was a prolific writer who described herself as ‘bred under the Southern Cross, held cheaply there – and labelled in London’.