Lillian Hellman

Lillian Hellman

female, deceased (1984)
Womendramatistsandplaywright, Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay, memoirist, Lillian Florence Hellman, Nora Charles, Nick and Nora Charles…Playwright
Lillian Florence Hellman (June 20, 1905 - June 30, 1984) was a successful American playwright, linked throughout her life with many left-wing...
Paula Vogel

Paula Vogel

female, 58 years old
Daniel Sullivan, Womendramatistsandplaywright, Cornell University alumni, From Providence, Rhode Island, from Washington, D.C., Obie Award…The Baltimore Waltz and Other Plays, And Baby Makes Seven, Playwright
Paula Vogel (born November 16 1951, in Washington, D.C.) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and university professor. She is best...
Hannah More

Hannah More

female, deceased (1833)
Wraxall, Somerset, English women writer, Playwright, Womendramatistsandplaywright, Evangelical Anglican, Clapham Sect…Women writer
Hannah More (February 2, 1745 - September 7, 1833) was an English religious writer and philanthropist. She can be said to have made three...
Aphra Behn

Aphra Behn

female, deceased (1689)
English women writer, Women writer, Women poet, Women novelist, Womendramatistsandplaywright, buried at Westminster Abbey…Playwright
Aphra Behn (July 10, 1640 - April 16, 1689) was a prolific dramatist of the Restoration and was one of the first English professional female...
Mary Russell Mitford

Mary Russell Mitford

female, deceased (1855)
poet, from Shinfield, Women novelist, Women poet, Sulhamstead, Womendramatistsandplaywright…Women writer, English women writer, Playwright
Mary Russell Mitford (December 16, 1787 - January 10, 1855), was an English novelist and dramatist. The only daughter of Dr George Mitford, or...
Maureen Duffy

Maureen Duffy

female, 76 years old
Women screenwriter, English women writer, Women poet, Womendramatistsandplaywright, Women novelist, Maureen Patricia Duffy…Playwright
Maureen Patricia Duffy (b. 1933 in Worthing, Sussex) is a contemporary British poet, playwright and novelist. She has also published a literary...
Naomi Iizuka

Naomi Iizuka

female
Womendramatistsandplaywright, Asian American, American, Yale University, Master of Fine Arts, National Cathedral School…Playwright, Division of Arts and Humanities
Naomi Iizuka is a playwright. Iizuka's works often have a non-linear storyline and are influenced by her multicultural background. Her plays are...
Liz Lochhead

Liz Lochhead

female, 61 years old
Women poet, Scottish women writer, Womendramatistsandplaywright, poet, True Confessions and New Clichés, Bagpipe Muzak…Blood and Ice, Dreaming Frankenstein and Collected Poems, Playwright
Liz Lochhead (born December 26, 1947) is a Scottish poet and dramatist, originally from Newarthill in North Lanarkshire. After attending Glasgow...
Susanna Centlivre

Susanna Centlivre

female, deceased (1723)
Womendramatistsandplaywright, Literary dunce, Women writer, child abuse, British, Playwright
Susanna Centlivre (born Susanna Freeman, also known professionally as Susanna Carroll; "baptised" November 1667 - December 1, 1723), was an English...
Vera Panova

Vera Panova

female, deceased (1973)
Women short story writer, Soviet screenwriter, Womendramatistsandplaywright, Women novelist, Soviet women writer, Gymnasium…Russian and Soviet screenwriter, Playwright
Vera Fyodorovna Panova (March 3 1973) was a Soviet Russian writer. Vera was born to the family of an impoverished merchant (later an accountant) in...