Margaret Atwood female

Margaret Eleanor Atwood, OC (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian writer. A prolific poet, novelist, literary critic, feminist and LGBT activist,...

Maxine Kumin female

Maxine Kumin (b. 1925) is an American poet and author.

Helen Keller female, deceased

Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 - June 1, 1968) was a deafblind American author, activist and lecturer.

Ursula K. Le Guin female

Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (born October 21, 1929) is an American author. She has written novels, poetry, children's books, essays, and short stories,...

Ellen Goodman female

Ellen Goodman is an American journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist.

Adrienne Rich female

Adrienne Rich (born May 16, 1929 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American feminist, poet, teacher, and writer.

Peggy Dulany female

Peggy Dulany Rockefeller (born 1947) ("Peggy Dulany") is a philanthropist and the fourth child of David Rockefeller. She is a fourth-generation...

Gertrude Stein female, deceased

Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 - July 27, 1946) was an American writer and is considered to have acted as a catalyst in the development of modern...

Mary Parker Follett female, deceased

Mary Parker Follett (1868-1933) was an American social worker, consultant, and author of books on democracy, human relations, and management. She...

Francine Prose female

Francine Prose (born in 1947 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American novelist. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1968, and received a...