Sonia Sanchez
American poet, writer, and teacher who played a pivotal role in the Black Arts Movement and authored more than a dozen books of poetry, as well as short stories, critical essays, plays, and children’s books.
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Katharine Coman
Influential American social activist and educator.
Susie King Taylor
The first Black nurse during the American Civil War. Beyond nursing the wounded of the 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regiment, she became the earliest African-American woman to self-publish her memoirs.
Teresa Wilms Montt
Chilean writer and poet known for her anarcha-feminist beliefs.
Tove Jansson
Finnish author, artist, and illustrator whose most famous works are the children’s novels in the Moomin series
Ursula K Le Guin
American author known for her significant contributions to speculative fiction. Le Guin’s career spanned nearly six decades. She authored over twenty novels, over a hundred short stories, poetry, literary critiques, translations, and children’s books.
Miriam O’Brien Underhill
Mountaineer, environmentalist and feminist proponent of all-women climbs
Nechama Leibowitz
In 1930, she earned her doctorate from the University of Marburg with her thesis on “Techniques in the Translations of German-Jewish Biblical Translations.” That same year, in 1930, she immigrated to Mandate Palestine. For the next twenty-five years, she taught at a religious Zionist teachers’ seminar.
Alice Walker
American author, poet, and activist whose most famous work, “The Color Purple,” published in 1982, is a seminal novel in American literature, known for its powerful portrayal of African American women’s lives in the early 20th century South.
Margaretha van Godewijk
Prominent Dutch Golden Age poet and a painter.