Lillian Smith
Lillian Smith was one of the first prominent white American southerners to denounce racial segregation openly and to work actively against the entrenched and often brutally enforced world of Jim Crow.
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Julia Flisch
Julia Flisch was an advocate for young women’s rights, education, and independence. She strove to advance the cause of women’s higher education in Georgia (US state) during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Eliza Frances Andrews
Eliza Frances Andrews was an American writer, newspaper reporter, editor, columnist, social critic, scientist, and educator.
Teutila Correa de Carter
Mexican writer
Adela Fernández
Mexican educator and writer whose work included 14 books of literature, poetry, anthropology and Mexican history, two short experimental films and many plays.
Caroline Pafford Miller
Caroline Miller published her first novel, Lamb in His Bosom, in 1933 and became the first Georgian to win the Pulitzer Prize for a novel.
Carson McCullers
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
Eleanor Perry went from writing whodunits with her first husband in Cleveland to writing screenplays for her second husband in New York and Hollywood.
Selina Bunbury
Irish novelist and short-story and travel writer
Adela Salinas
Mexican journalist and writer.