Willa Cather
Pulitzer-winning American author known for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains.
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
Canadian author best known for her series of novels beginning with “Anne of Green Gables,” published in 1908.
Magda Szabó
Hungarian writer, considered one of Hungary’s most celebrated literary figures, with her works translated into numerous languages. Szabó gained international fame primarily for her novels, although she also wrote poetry, essays, and plays.
Lauretta Ngcobo
South African writer, educator, and political activist
Karin Boye
Famed Swedish poet, novelist and short story writer
Margaret C Anderson
Influential American publisher, editor, and writer, best known for her work in founding and editing the literary magazine “The Little Review”.
Marițica Bibescu
Prominent figure in Romanian history, married to Gheorghe Bibescu, who became Prince of Wallachia in 1842.
Gloria Naylor
American novelist best known for her debut work, “The Women of Brewster Place” (1982), which won the National Book Award for First Novel in 1983.
Radclyffe Hall
Distinguished English poet and author renowned for her pioneering novel, “The Well of Loneliness,” a groundbreaking position in lesbian literature.
Ann Petry
Writer best known for her 1946 novel “The Street,” which became the first novel by an African-American woman to sell more than a million copies.