Emily Caroline Barnett

From January 1883, Barnett kept a detailed diary that recorded descriptions of her Australian tip trip including topography, vegetation, observations of frontier life, and commentary on white and Aboriginal relations.

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Sandra Gail Lambert

Though Sandra Gail Lambert didn’t start writing seriously until her late 30s—publishing her first novel at 62—there are advantages to being a “late bloomer.”

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Esther Wojcicki

Esther Wojcicki, known as “The Godmother of Silicon Valley,” is an internationally acclaimed journalist, award-winning educator and pioneer in the integration of technology into the classroom.

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Joan Didion

Writer of in five novels and five screenplays, and in thirteen books of nonfiction that sprawl across the genre, from personal essays and memoir, to criticism and political reportage, and to hybrids of these that have stretched our cultural understanding of what nonfiction can be.

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Aimee Phan

Aimee Phan’s first book, We Should Never Meet: Stories (2004), was named a Notable Book by the Kiriyama Prize in fiction, as well as a finalist for the 2005 Asian American Literary Awards.

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