Writer Archives - Page 5 of 148

Cathy Guisewite

Debuting in 1976, Cathy Guisewite’s unapologetically autobiographical strip addressed romance, marriage, family relationships, pets, food, and work

Célia Bertin was recruited to help Allied aviators hidden in Occupied Paris because of her ability to speak English. In 1993 she published a study of women during this period, Femmes sous l’Occupation.

Claire Chevrillon

After the increasingly harsh laws were imposed on Jewish citizens during WWII, she joined the resistance most notably encoding and decoding messages between the Free French in London and de Gaulle’s Paris delegation.

Cleone de Hevengham Benest

British motorist, engineer and metallurgist

Constance Fligg Elam Tipper

Eminent metallurgist and a very rare example of an industry-standard test named after a woman.

Dale Messick

Messick’s Brenda Starr was a worthy female counterpart to male heroes marked a milestone among comics by women. At its peak, the strip ran in 250 newspapers.

Ai Ogawa

American poet

Anne Harriet Fish

Designing more than 30 cover designs for Vanity Fair, Fish also created elegant cartoon, caricature, and illustration drawings that were published in other magazines including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Cosmopolitan.