Honey Bruce Friedman
Harriett Jolliff was an Arkansas-born entertainer best known as the wife and muse of comedian Lenny Bruce.
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Mary Boykin Chesnut
Mary Boykin Chesnut’s U.S. Civil War diary was published in 1905, almost twenty years after her death. Offering a “vivid picture of a society in the throes of its life-and-death struggle,” she described the war from her perspective as an upper-class Southern slaveowner, but her writing encompassed different classes as well.
Doris Pilkington Garimara
One of the best-known accounts of Australia’s Stolen Generation is Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence (1996), a non-fiction book written by Doris Pilkington Garimara about the escape from such an institution by her mother, Molly Craig, Molly’s half-sister Daisy and their cousin, Gracie.
Lynn Povich
In 1970, 60 women employees of Newsweek sued the magazine. Female researchers accused male writers and editors of taking credit for their work, including Lynn Povich, who later wrote a book about the experience, Good Girls Revolt.
Judith Jones
This editor not only rescued The Diary of Anne Frank from the reject pile, she was also a champion for Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking.
Isabella Beeton
Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management sold over 2 million copies internationally, outsold at the time only by the Bible.
Florence Deeks
Canadian writer and teacher who sued Macmillan and H. G. Wells for stealing her work
Hilda Matheson
The BBC’s first director of talks, who helped to establish radio journalism
Elizabeth Spencer
American novelist and rightful winner of the 1957 Pulitzer Prize for fiction
Dr Darcie Little Badger
Darcie Little Badger is a Lipan Apache writer with a doctorate in oceanography. Her debut novel, “Elatsoe,” was featured in Time Magazine as one of the best 100 fantasy novels of all time.