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Ethel Mayne

Irish novelist, short story writer, biographer and translator

Rosalynn Carter

Rosalynn Carter, wife of the thirty-ninth U.S. president, Jimmy Carter, forged a career in public service as one of the nation’s foremost advocates for mental health.

Melissa Fay Greene

Melissa Fay Greene’s award-winning books Praying for Sheetrock and The Temple Bombing chronicle dramatic episodes in the civil rights movement in Georgia (U.S.).

Sadie Forman

A fierce non-sectarian and advocate for racial equality and women’s rights in South Africa

Betsy Sheridan

Irish novelist and diarist

Sylvia Neame

South African anti-apartheid and political activist and writer

Ohio reporter and social welfare volunteer who helped organize the Cleveland Diocesan Council of the National Councl of Catholic Women in 1923, received a papal medal for distinguished service by a layperson to the Catholic Church in 1936.