Writer Archives - Page 26 of 131

Rachel Benton

Paleontologist with the US National Park Service

Florida Ruffin Ridley

While Florida Ruffin Ridley followed in the footsteps of her mother, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, she paved her own way as a writer, activist, and community leader.

Olivia Robello Breitha

Renowned author and Hansen’s disease activist who resided in Kalaupapa from 1937 until her death in 2006.

Haruko Takahashi

Japanese-American Shintō priestess who spent part of World War II imprisoned at Honouliuli Internment Camp on O’ahu, Hawai’i

Harriet Quimby

The first American woman to earn a pilot’s license and the first woman to make a solo flight across the English Channel

Anna Louise Strong

Prolific writer and journalist who brought socialist politics to the mountains when she co-founded Cooperative Campers of the Pacific Northwest in 1916.

Ann Charlotte Bartholomew

English author and flower and miniature painter

Jane Lead

Christian mystic whose spiritual visions, recorded in a series of publications, were central to the founding and philosophy of the Philadelphian Society in London in the 1600s

Kimiko Kaye Tambara

Journalist and activist who documented the imprisonment of Japanese-Americans during WWII

Carrie Williams Qisiliaq Uhl

Carrie was an important part of daily life in Sisualik, passing on on traditions to all who had an interest in learning, including teaching skin sewing, seal processing, and cooking.