Writer Archives - Page 8 of 157

Signe Wilkinson

As her cartoons for Ms. Magazine in the 1980s demonstrate, Signe Wilkinson addressed women’s issues early in her career.

Zoe Caldwell

Australian-born American/U.K. actress celebrated mostly for her stage work on Broadway.

Adriana Trigiani

Adriana Trigiani is an award-winning author, playwright, screenwriter, and documentary filmmaker.

Rose Cecil O’Neill was a self-taught bohemian artist, who ascended through a male-dominated field to become a top illustrator and the first to build a merchandising empire from her work, with her invention of the Kewpie doll.

Dr Ruth Westheimer

Famed sex therapist

Grissel Gómez Estrada

Mexican poet

Mary White Ovington

Mary White Ovington (1865–1951), a social worker and freelance writer, was a principal NAACP founder and officer for almost forty years.

Martha Putney

African-American Women’s Army Corps officer during World War II

Pippa Latour Doyle

Pippa Latour Doyle moved to England from her native South Africa in 1941 to join the war effort. She was recruited into the UK’s Special Operations Executive (SOE) to spy for the Allies in France due to her fluency in French.