Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison

female, 78 years old (Princeton, New Jersey, United States)
nobel prize in literature, Nobel Prize, From Houston, English, From Lorain, Ohio, Princeton University…Americanwomenwriter, The 30 Most Powerful Women in America, writer, American, Ohio writer
Toni Morrison (born Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18 1931), is a Nobel Prize-winning American author, editor, and professor. Her novels are...
Kate Chopin

Kate Chopin

female, deceased (1904)
Americanwomenwriter, vogue magazine, Louisiana Creole, From st. louis, missouri, Business Person, Missouri writer…writer, French American, Louisiana writer, Short story writer, American
Kate Chopin (born Katherine O'Flaherty on February 8, 1850 - August 22, 1904), was an American author of short stories and novels, mostly of a...
Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin

female, 80 years old
science fiction writer, science fiction, fantasy writer, feminism, Feminist, Americanwomenwriter…American, Short story writer, Oregon writer, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer of America, children's writer
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (born October 21, 1929) is an American author. She has written novels, poetry, children's books, essays, and short stories,...
Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath

female, deceased (1963) (United States)
Americanwomenwriter, Autobiographical novel, expatriate, depression, Smith College alumni, committed suicide…American, writer
Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 - February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Known primarily for her poetry, Plath...
Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

female, deceased (1886)
Mount Holyoke College alumni, Americanwomenwriter, lesbian, Emily Elizabeth Dickinson, from Amherst, Massachusetts, Mount Holyoke College alumnae…American, Massachusetts writer, american civil war, writer
Emily Dickinson was an American poet. Though virtually unknown in her lifetime, Dickinson has come to be regarded, along with Walt Whitman, as one...
Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston

female, deceased (1960)
Barnard College alumni, Americanwomenwriter, death by stroke, Alabama writer, Howard University alumni, anti-communist…American, African American, writer, Florida writer
Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 - January 28, 1960) was an American folklorist and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance, best known...
Nora Ephron

Nora Ephron

female, 68 years old
Wellesley College alumni, Essayist, 1986 film, Americanwomenwriter, Women essayist, Women screenwriter…American, writer, Jewish American
Nora Ephron (born May 19 1941) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, novelist, and blogger. Ephron was born in Brooklyn, New York....
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe

female, deceased (1896)
Beecher family, Americanwomenwriter, Women novelist, Congregationalist, Uncle Tom's Cabin, from Hartford, Connecticut…American South, American, writer
Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe was a white American abolitionist and novelist, whose "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1852) attacked the cruelty of slavery;...
Phillis Wheatley

Phillis Wheatley

female, deceased (1784)
Congregationalist, Gambian women writer, Senegalese women writer, Boston cultural history, Americanwomenwriter, Massachusetts colonial…Women writer, Senegalese American, African American, writer, African American literature
Phillis Wheatley was the first African American female writer to be published in the United States. Her book "Poems on Various Subjects" was...
Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert

female, 40 years old
Women travel writer, Americanwomenwriter, Pilgrims, novelist, writer, Short story writer…Women short story writer, The Last American Man, American, Travel writer
Elizabeth Gilbert (born 1969) is an American novelist, essayist, short story writer, biographer and memoirist.