With a collection of work including five novels, two plays, twenty short stories, more than two dozen nonfiction pieces, a book of children’s verse, a small number of poems, and an unfinished autobiography, Carson McCullers is considered to be among the most significant American writers of the twentieth century.
Eleanor Perry went from writing whodunits with her first husband in Cleveland to writing screenplays for her second husband in New York and Hollywood.
Irish novelist and short-story and travel writer
Mexican journalist and writer.
Possibly the first Jewish woman author to write Jewish stories for the secular press in the US.
Mexican playwright and novelist
1800s Irish author
Virginia educator and author whose work portrays the generation of Virginians who endured the hardships of defeat following the American Civil War (1861–1865) and looked ahead to the next century by embracing innovative ideas on health and well-being.
A compiler of popular Mexican tales, she transcribed them and illustrated many of them.
Irish essayist and poet