- Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf (née Stephen was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels "Mrs Dalloway" (1925), "To the Lighthouse" (1927), and "Orlando" (1928), … - Virginia Postrel
Virginia I. Postrel (born 14 January 1960) is an American political and cultural writer of broadly libertarian, or classical liberal, views. She is best known for her two non-fiction books, "The Future and Its Enemies" and "The Substance of Style". In the former she explains her philosophy, "dynamism," a forward-looking and change-seeking philosophy which generally favors unregulated organization through "spontaneous order". - Virginia Euwer Wolff
Virginia Euwer Wolff (1937-) is a prize-winning American childrens's book author, born in Portland, Oregon She attended Smith College. Among other notable books, she is the author of the award-winning series, "Make Lemonade", a book about a 14 year old girl, LaVaughn, who babysits for the children of a 17 year old single mother, and its sequel, "True Believer," which won the National Book Award. - Virginia Waddy
Virginia Waddy (1850-1911) was an educator and author born in the United States of America. She was a teacher of Rhetoric at Richmond High School in Richmond, Virginia. In 1889, she published the 416 page, sixteen chapter book titled "Elements of Composition and Rhetoric with Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and Construction." - Virginia Marangell
[__|action=edit}} log] </small> |||= |#default=}}|}} } Virginia Marangell (b. July 8, 1924) is an American author who has been writing since she was a little girl, when she used to arrange "paper people" on an attic floor and dream of becoming a famous writer someday. A Swedish-American, she married an Italian-American and wrote four novels about Italian immigrant families in Wooster Square, New Haven, Connecticut. - Virginia C. Andrews
Cleo Virginia Andrews, better known as V. C. Andrews or Virginia C. Andrews was an American author. She was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, and died of breast cancer at the age of 63. Andrews' novels combine Gothic horror and family saga, revolving around family secrets and forbidden love (frequently involving themes of consensual incest, most often between siblings), and they often include a rags-to-riches story. - Virginia Hamilton
Virginia Hamilton (March 12, 1936 - February 19, 2002) was a prolific children's author. She wrote over 35 books, including "M. C. Higgins, the Great", for which she won the National Book Award in 1974 and the 1975 Newbery Medal. - Virginia G. McMorrow
- Virginia Henley
Virginia Syddall Henley (b. 1935 in England, UK), as her married name Virginia Henley, she is well-known like "The Queen of Steam" by her historical-romance novels. She a successful author of Medieval, Renaissance and other period piece romance novels. - Virginia Sorenson
Virginia Sorenson, also credited as Virginia Sorensen, (born February 17, 1912, in Provo, Utah; died December 24, 1991) was the author of the 1957 Newbery Medal winning "Miracles on Maple Hill". Her first novel, "A Little Lower Than the Angels", was written and published while she resided in Terre Haute, Indiana, with her first husband, in 1942. She later married Alec Waugh, son of Arthur Waugh and brother of Evelyn Waugh, in 1969. - Virginia Lee Burton
Virginia Lee Burton (born August 30 1909, in Newton Centre, Massachusetts, died October 15, 1968) was an American illustrator and children's book author. Burton produced seven self-illustrated children's books. - Virginia Demarce
Dr. Virginia DeMarce is a historian who specializes in early modern European history, as well as a prominent author in the 1632 series collaborative fiction project. - Virginia Brindis de Salas
Virginia Brindis de Salas (1908?-1958) was a poet of the black community of Uruguay. She was an active contributor to the black artistic journal "Nuestra Raza", and published two collections of poetry: "Pregon de Marimorena" in 1946 and "Cien Carceles de Amor" in 1949. These successes made her--along with Pilar Barrios--one of the few published Uruguayan women poets. - Virginia E. Johnson
Virginia Eshelman Johnson (born February 11, 1925 in Springfield, Missouri) was an American psychologist, best known as the junior member of the Masters and Johnson sexuality research team. Along with William Masters, she pioneered research into the nature of human sexual response and the diagnosis and treatment of sexual disorders and dysfunctions from 1957 until the 1990s. - Gena Rowlands
Gena Rowlands (born June 19 1930) is an American actress. - Virginia Satir
Virginia Satir (26 June 1916 - 10 September 1988) was a noted American author and psychotherapist, known especially for her approach to family therapy. Her most well-known books are "Conjoint Family Therapy", 1964, "Peoplemaking", 1972, and "The New Peoplemaking", 1988. She is also known for the creating the "Virginia Satir - Change Process Model", this model was developed through clinical studies. - Harriet Virginia
- Erskine Caldwell
Erskine Preston Caldwell (December 17,1903 - April 11, 1987) was an American author born in a house in the woods outside Moreland, Georgia in Coweta County. Caldwell was the son of a minister in the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church. His early childhood was spent moving from state to state across the South, as his father found a position in one church after another. Later, he attended, but did not graduate from, Erskine College. - Virginia Elizabeth Davis
As a child, Geena dreamed of being an actress. While in high school, she felt left out and had low self-esteem because, at 6 feet, she was the tallest girl in school. After high school, Geena entered New England College in New Hampshire and then transferred the next year to Boston University, where she majored in drama. In 1979, she graduated and moved to New York to start her career. Her career consisted of sales clerk and waitress. She worked at Ann Taylor, where she eventually rose to... - Virginia Bogert
- Virginia Kassel
- Virginia Van Upp
Happily married with one child, Harry Cohn made Virginia Van Upp Executive Producer of Columbia Pictures in 1945. A woman would not hold this post for another thirty one years. With Harriet Parsons and Joan Harrison, was one of only three women working as contract producers for major Hollywood studios between 1943 and 1955. - Virginia Hamilton-Adoff
Children: Leigh Hamilton Adoff and Jaime Levi Adoff Attended Antioch College and Ohio State University. Studied writing at the New School for Social Research in New York City, where she met her husband. Won an Edgar Allan Poe award, the Laura Ingalls Wilder award (1995), Coretta Scott King award, and an Hans Christian Andersen medal. - Virginia Davis
Virginia Davis was born on December 31, 1918, in Kansas City, Missouri. Her father was a traveling furniture salesman and spent much time away from home. With her husband gone for weeks at a time, Margaret Davis, a housewife, focused all her attention on her daughter; she began taking Virginia to dancing lessons and modeling auditions when she was 2. A striking child with long curls, Virginia was soon appearing in advertisements that played between films in local theaters. She also... - Virginia Duigan
Sister of John Duigan. Mother of Trilby Beresford - Virginia Belle Pearson
In her silent heyday, this dark-eyed beauty was known as "the screen's heretic" and reigned along with Theda Bara, Louise Glaum and Valeska Suratt as Hollywood's most notorious vamps. She went out of style after WWI and by 1924 had to declare bankruptcy. Thereafter she was reduced to extra parts and was forced to live with her husband, former actor Sheldon Lewis, in a small Hollywood Hotel room. - Virginia Tracy
Daughter of actress Helen Tracy. - Virginia Terhune Van de Water
Sister of writer Albert Payson Terhune. Daughter of author Marion Harland (née Virginia Hawes Terhune). - Virginia Stone
- Virginia Woodruff
- Virginia Kellogg
- Virginia Williams
- Stephen Powys
- Virginia Shaler
- Virginia Martínez
- Virginia Anita Williams
- Virginia Serret
- Virginia Onorato
- Virginia Perdue
- Virginia Pitts
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