- Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison (born Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18 1931), is a Nobel Prize-winning American author, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialog, and richly detailed African American characters; among the best known are her novels "The Bluest Eye", "Song of Solomon", and "Beloved", which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988. - Kate Chopin
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 Louisiana Creole background. She is now considered to have been a forerunner of feminist authors of the 20th century. From 1889 to 1902, she wrote short stories for both children and adults which were published in such magazines as "Atlantic Monthly", "Vogue", the "Century", … - Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (born October 21, 1929) is an American author. She has written novels, poetry, children's books, essays, and short stories, most notably in the fantasy and science fiction genres. She was first published in the 1960s. Her works explore Taoist, anarchist, feminist, psychological and sociological themes. She has received several Hugo and Nebula awards, … - Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 - February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Known primarily for her poetry, Plath also wrote a semi-autobiographical novel, "The Bell Jar", under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas, detailing her struggle with depression. Along with Anne Sexton, Plath is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry that Robert Lowell and W.D. Snodgrass initiated. - Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson was an American poet. Though virtually unknown in her lifetime, Dickinson has come to be regarded, along with Walt Whitman, as one of the two quintessential American poets of the 19th century. Dickinson lived an introverted and hermetic life. Although she wrote, at the last count, 1,789 poems, only a handful of them were published during her lifetime. All of these were published anonymously and some may have been published without her knowledge. - Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 - January 28, 1960) was an American folklorist and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance, best known for the 1937 novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God". - Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron (born May 19 1941) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, novelist, and blogger. Ephron was born in Brooklyn, New York. She was born into a Jewish family and her parents, Henry and Phoebe Ephron, were both East Coast-born and raised screenwriters. They based Sandra Dee's character in the James Stewart film "Take Her, She's Mine" on their 22-year-old daughter Nora. Both died from alcoholism. - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe was a white American abolitionist and novelist, whose "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1852) attacked the cruelty of slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential, even in Britain. It made the political issues of the 1850s regarding slavery tangible to millions, energizing anti-slavery forces in the North. It angered and embittered the South. - Phillis Wheatley
Phillis Wheatley was the first African American female writer to be published in the United States. Her book "Poems on Various Subjects" was published in 1773, two years before the American Revolutionary War began, and is seen as one of the first examples of African American literature. - Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert (born 1969) is an American novelist, essayist, short story writer, biographer and memoirist. - Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901, Philadelphia - November 15, 1978, New York City) was an American cultural anthropologist. - Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 - October 6, 1979), was an American poet and writer. She enjoyed critical acclaim in her lifetime, and her poetry continues to be widely read and studied. She is considered one of the finest 20th century poets to have written in English. - Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was an American author, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her immensely successful novel, "Gone with the Wind," published in 1936. The novel is one of the most popular books of all time, selling more than 28 million copies (see list of best-selling books). An American film adaptation, released in 1939, became the highest-grossing film in the history of Hollywood, and received a record-breaking number of Academy Awards. - Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag was an American essayist, novelist, intellectual, filmmaker, and activist. - Tamar Jacoby
Tamar Jacoby (b. 1954) is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, known primarily for her writing on immigration-related issues. A native of New York City, Ms. Jacoby graduated from Yale University in 1976, after which she became a staffer on the New York Review of Books. From 1981 to 1987 she served as a deputy editor of the op-ed page of "The New York Times", and from 1987 to 1989 as a senior writer and justice editor at "Newsweek". - Vendela Vida
Vendela Vida (born September 6, 1972) is an American novelist, journalist, and editor who lives in San Francisco with her husband, writer Dave Eggers. She graduated from San Francisco University High School in her hometown before attending Middlebury College as an undergraduate. She received an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University. She has written three books, "Girls on the Verge", "And Now You Can Go", … - Michiko Kakutani
Michiko Kakutani (born 9 January, 1955) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning critic for the "New York Times." - Regina Lynn
Regina Lynn (born on May 17, 1971) is a blogger, author, and sex-tech expert. She has a daily blog on "Wired" called Sex Drive Daily, in addition to a weekly column with "Wired" called Sex Drive with Regina Lynn, which comes out every Friday. "Marie Claire" named her one of the top five leading sex experts. Lynn discusses the convergence of sex and technology, touching on subjects ranging from teledildonics to online dating. - Anne Bradstreet
Anne Bradstreet was the first American female writer, and the first American female poet to have her works published. - Angela Davis
Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American socialist organizer, professor who was associated with the Black Panther Party (BPP) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Davis's main association however, was her membership in the Communist Party USA. She first achieved nationwide notoriety when she was linked to the murder of judge Harold Haley during an attempted Black Panther prison break; she fled underground, … - Patricia Smith
Patricia Smith (1955) is a poet, spoken word performer, playwright, author, writing teacher, and former journalist. She was born in Chicago and lives in Westchester County, New York. Honored for her work both on the stage and on the page, she is a four time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam and winner of the Carl Sandburg Literary Award and the National Poetry Series award. - Mary Johnston
Mary Johnston was an American novelist and women's rights advocate. The daughter of an American Civil War soldier who became a successful lawyer, Mary Johnston was born in the small town of Buchanan, Virginia. A small and frail girl, she was educated at home by family and tutors. She grew up with a love of books and was financially independent enough to devote herself to writing. Johnston wrote historical books and novels that often combined romance with history. - Tillie Olsen
Tillie Lerner Olsen was an American writer, associated with the political turmoil of 1930s and the first generation of American feminists. Olsen was born to Russian Jewish immigrants in Omaha, Nebraska. She dropped out of Omaha Central High School to enter the work force, and over the years worked as a waitress, domestic worker, and meat trimmer. She was also a union organizer and political activist, and in the 1930s she was briefly a member of the American Communist party. - Susanna Rowson
Susanna Rowson, née Haswell was a British-American novelist, poet, religious writer, stage actress and educator. Rowson was the author of the novel "Charlotte Temple" - the biggest bestseller in American literature until Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was published in 1852. - Patti Smith
Patricia Lee ("Patti") Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American musician, singer, and poet. Smith came to prominence during the punk movement with her 1975 debut album "Horses". Called "punk rock's poet laureate", she brought a feminist and intellectual take to punk music and became one of rock and roll's most influential musicians. - Margaret Fuller
Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli (May 23, 1810 - June 19, 1850) was a journalist, critic and women's rights activist. The most important gender theorist of her time, Fuller was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (The Margaret Fuller House, in which she was born, is still standing today and is now occupied by an active community outreach program.) Her father, Timothy Fuller, a lawyer and prominent politician, … - Tama Janowitz
Tama Janowitz (born April 12, 1957) is an American novelist and a short story writer. The 2005 September/October issue of "Pages" magazine listed her as one of the four "brat pack" authors, along with Bret Easton Ellis and Jay McInerney. Born in San Francisco, California to a psychiatrist father and literature professor mother who divorced when she was ten, … - Sandra Lee
Sandra Lee (born July 3, 1966 in Los Angeles, California) is an American author and television presenter. Lee is most well-known for her "semi-homemade cooking" concept. - Sara Teasdale
Sara Teasdale, was an American lyrical poet. She was born Sarah Trevor Teasdale in St. Louis, Missouri. Teasdale's major themes were love, nature's beauty, and death, and her poems were much loved during the early 20th century. In 1918 she won the Columbia University Poetry Society prize (the forerunner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry) and the annual prize of the Poetry Society of America for her volume, "Love Songs". - Sara Moulton
Sara Moulton is the executive chef of "Gourmet magazine" and was host of the Food Network show "Sara's Secrets" and "Cooking Live". After graduating from the University of Michigan in 1974 with no plans for a career, Moulton attended the Culinary Institute of America. She then worked in restaurants in Boston and New York City and as an apprentice in Chartres, France. - Pauline Hopkins
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859 - August 13, 1930) was a prominent early African-American novelist, journalist, playwright, and editor. She is considered a pioneer in her use of the romantic novel to explore social and racial themes. Her work is significantly influenced by W.E.B. DuBois. Hopkins' earliest known work, "Slaves' Escape, or the Underground Railroad" (also known as "Peculiar Sam"), first performed in 1880, … - May Sarton
May Sarton (May 3, 1912-July 16, 1995) was an American poet, novelist, and memoirist born in Wondelgem, Belgium. Many of her novels and poems are pellucid reflections of the lesbian experience. - Kaavya Viswanathan
Kaavya Viswanathan (born January 16, 1987) is an Indian-American undergraduate student at Harvard College. She came to public attention when her debut novel, "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life", was revealed to have been plagiarized from multiple sources. She was born in Chennai, India, and raised in Glasgow, Scotland, and later in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, United States. - Susan Straight
Susan Straight (born October 19, 1960 in Riverside, California) is an American author and National Book Award finalist. - Robin McKinley
Robin McKinley (born November 16, 1952 as Jennifer Carolyn Robin Turrell McKinley) is a fantasy author especially known for her Newbery Medal-winning novel "The Hero and the Crown". She has also won a Newbery Honor for "The Blue Sword", the Mythopoeic Award for "Sunshine", the World Fantasy Award for "Imaginary Lands", and the 1998 Phoenix Award honor book for "Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast". - Sarah Orne Jewett
Sarah Orne Jewett (September 3, 1849 - June 24, 1909) was an American novelist and short story writer whose works were set in or near South Berwick, Maine, a declining New England seaport town near the Maine border with New Hampshire. Jewett's father was a doctor, Jewett often accompanied him on his rounds, becoming acquainted with the sights and sounds of her native land and its people. As treatment for rheumatoid arthritis, a condition that developed in early childhood, … - Sue Hubbell
Sue Hubbell (born 1935) is an American author. Her books "A Country Year" and "A Book of Bees" were selected by the "New York Times" "Book Review" as Notable Books of the Year. The author has also written for "The New Yorker", the "St. Louis Post-Dispatch", "Smithsonian" and "Time". She was a frequent contributor to the "Hers" column of the "New York Times". - Wendy Wasserstein
Wendy Wasserstein was an award-winning American playwright and an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. She was the recipient of the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. - Megan McCafferty
Megan McCafferty (born February 3, 1973) is a contemporary U.S. author most known for her series of books about Jessica Darling, a witty teenage heroine. These books are often classified as chick lit for young adults. McCafferty hails from New Jersey, and attended the University of Richmond before transferring to Columbia University to earn a bachelor's degree in English. After graduation, McCafferty worked in magazine publishing as an editor for "Cosmopolitan", … - Susan Warner
Susan Bogert Warner, was an American writer of religious fiction for young people. Born in New York City, she wrote, under the name of "Elizabeth Wetherell," a number of stories, of which "The Wide, Wide World" (1851) had an extraordinary popularity. It was translated into French, Italian, Russian, Swedish, and Spanish. Other than "Uncle Tom's Cabin", it was perhaps the most widely circulated story of American authorship.
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