Writer Archives - Page 9 of 138

Toyo Suyemoto

Nisei inmate, librarian, poet, and memoirist.

Mitsuye Yamada

Acclaimed poet, feminist writer, and human rights activist. Much of Yamada’s work draws on the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans.

Maud Palmer Hart Lovelace

Best known for her Betsy-Tacy series of thirteen books, she authored six historical novels for adults as well as five additional books for children.

Laura Ingalls Wilder was sixty-five when she published Little House in the Big Woods, a novel for young readers inspired by her childhood in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Her book, and the others that followed, made her an icon of children’s literature.

Frances Densmore

From the 1890s through the 1950s, Frances Densmore researched and recorded the music of Native Americans. Through more than twenty books, 200 articles, and some 2,500 Graphophone recordings, she preserved important cultural traditions that might otherwise have been lost.

Alessandra Comini

Scholar of fin-de-siècle Germanic art and music; Southern Methodist University professor of art history.

Alice Van Vechten Brown

Establisher of the first Art History program and Art Museology courses in the United States.

Wanda Gág

Wanda Gág was determined to be an artist from an early age, and ultimately she succeeded. Her talent steered her through family hardship and hesitant early artistic efforts until she created Millions of Cats, her 1928 children’s book. It has never been out of print.

Meridel Le Sueur

For more than seventy years, the Minnesota-based writer and activist Meridel Le Sueur was a voice for oppressed peoples worldwide. Beginning in the 1920s, she championed the struggles of workers against the capitalist economy, the efforts of women to find their voices and their power, the rights of American Indians to their lands and their cultures, and environmentalist causes.

Dr Idolina Velázquez Soto

Mexican researcher, poet and academic.