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Dr Rosemary DePaolo

Georgia College and State University’s first female president

Mattie Lou O’Kelley began to paint in 1962, at the age of fifty-four. Memory painters like O’Kelley were known for depicting scenes from their earlier lives—usually rural themes reflecting simpler times.

Margaret Manor Butler

American local historian

Marian McCamy Sims

Marian McCamy Sims emerged as a novelist and short-story writer in the 1930s and 1940s

Marie Emilie Gilchrist

20th century American poet whose poems appeared in numerous periodicals, as well as a researcher for several years and, later, editor for Reader’s Digest.

Mary Hood

Two-time winner of the Townsend Prize for Fiction whose stories appear in numerous anthologies and textbooks

Megalostrata

Ancient Greek poet and composer

Ippolita Gonzaga

1500s Italian poet

Adela Arriola

Adela Arriola was a Mexicanteacher and poet who wrote in the style of her generation’s Romantics.

Evelina Bobes Ortega

Evelina Bobes Ortega was a Mexican novelist who won the Miguel Lanz Duret Prize in 1950 for her novel Otoño estéril (Barren Autumn). She also published two other novels, La ciudad y la música (The City and the Music, 1951) and El viento de noviembre (The November Wind, 1965).