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Teresa Wilms Montt

Chilean writer and poet known for her anarcha-feminist beliefs.

Tove Jansson

Finnish author, artist, and illustrator whose most famous works are the children’s novels in the Moomin series

American author known for her significant contributions to speculative fiction. Le Guin’s career spanned nearly six decades. She authored over twenty novels, over a hundred short stories, poetry, literary critiques, translations, and children’s books.

Miriam O’Brien Underhill

Mountaineer, environmentalist and feminist proponent of all-women climbs

Nechama Leibowitz

In 1930, she earned her doctorate from the University of Marburg with her thesis on “Techniques in the Translations of German-Jewish Biblical Translations.” That same year, in 1930, she immigrated to Mandate Palestine. For the next twenty-five years, she taught at a religious Zionist teachers’ seminar.

Alice Childress

American playwright, actress, and author

Alice Walker

American author, poet, and activist whose most famous work, “The Color Purple,” published in 1982, is a seminal novel in American literature, known for its powerful portrayal of African American women’s lives in the early 20th century South.

Margaretha van Godewijk

Prominent Dutch Golden Age poet and a painter.

Marie Wilcox

The last native speaker of Wukchumni, a dialect of Tule-Kaweah, an indigenous language spoken by the Tule-Kaweah Yokuts of California. Her life’s work focused on preserving this endangered language.