Sarah Knowles Bolton
Prolific writer of biographical studies, poetry, and a temperance novel.
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Rosemary Daniell
A writer and a teacher of writing, Rosemary Daniell is known for her provocative poems and memoirs.
Ruby Altizer Roberts
Ruby Altizer Roberts is the author of two collections of poetry, three memoirs, a children’s book, and a genealogy. She was named Virginia’s first female poet laureate in 1950 and, until 1994, was the only woman to have held the post.
Virginia Moore
Poet, biographer, and scholar, perhaps best known for her work Virginia Is a State of Mind (1942), which has been described as the “biography of a state.”
S Isabel Choi
Korea-born American lawyer and writer
Carrie Steele Logan
Carrie Steele Logan founded the Carrie Steele Orphan Home in Atlanta, recognized as the oldest predominantly Black orphanage in Georgia and possibly the oldest organization of its type in the country.
Julia Pardoe
1800s UK author
Doris E O’Donnell Beaufait
One of Cleveland’s pioneer woman journalists, specializing in crime, racial, and investigative reporting for four local newspapers over a span of four decades.
Anne O’Hare McCormick
The first woman on the editorial board of the New York Times (NYT) (1936-54) and the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for foreign correspondence (1937)
Argentina Fernández
Argentina Fernández Rafaelli has devoted herself mainly to political journalism and has also worked in novels, poetry and the biographies of public officials