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)
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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
Dr Jill Ker Conway
Australian-American scholar and author and the first woman to chair a listed public company in Australia.
Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates (b.1938) is an award-winning author
Laura Redden Searing
Deaf American suffragist
Annette Gordon-Reed
No historian has done more to recover the stories of enslaved African-Americans than Annette Gordon-Reed, whose 2008 book The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in History, as well as wide acclaim.
Caroline Blackwood
Irish writer
Anita Leslie
Irish biographer
Elizabeth Dillon
British diarist
Sarah Patton Boyle
Sarah-Patton Boyle was one of Virginia’s most prominent white civil rights activists during the 1950s and 1960s and author of the widely acclaimed autobiography The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition (1962).