Assia Djebar
Best known by her pen name Assia Djebar, Fatima-Zohra Imalayen was an Algerian feminist novelist, translator and filmmaker, considered one of North Africa’s most influential writers.
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Juliette Adam
French writer whose Novelle Revue, founded in 1879, and salon were politically influential
Kate Wiggin
American author of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm,
Mary Shelley
English author of Frankenstein
Natalie Clifford Barney
Barney established a salon at her home that brought together artists of all nationalities, literary movements, and sexual identities; Joan Schenkar, a biographer of Barney’s lover Dorothy Wilde, calls it “the most subversive literary salon that ever existed.”
Neith Boyce
American journalist and playwright
Gertrude Stein
American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector
Jane Heap
American editor, publisher, art gallery owner, and teacher
Maeve Binchy
Irish novelist and journalist
Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy
American author