Mercedes de Acosta

Mercedes de Acosta was an American poet, playwright, and novelist who wrote almost a dozen plays, only four of which were produced, and published a novel and three volumes of poetry.

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Ina Coolbrith

Ina Donna Coolbrith was an American poet, writer and librarian, prominent in the San Francisco Bay Area literary community. Called the “Sweet Singer of California”, she was the first California Poet Laureate, as well as the first poet laureate of any U.S. state.

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Urani Rumbo

Urani Rumbo was an Albanian feminist, playwright and teacher who founded several associations promoting Albanian women’s rights.

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Libby Riddles

Libby Riddles is an American dog musher, who became the first woman to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on March 20, 1985.

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Ann Katharine Mitchell

Ann Katharine Mitchell was a British cryptanalyst and psychologist who worked on decrypting messages encoded in the Germans’ Enigma cypher at Bletchley Park during World War II.

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Susan Fowler

Susan Joy Fowler is a writer and software engineer known for influencing institutional changes in how Uber and Silicon Valley companies respond to sexual harassment.

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Pat Parker

Pat Parker was an American poet and activist who drew from her experiences as an African-American lesbian feminist. Her poetry spoke to her difficult childhood growing up in poverty, coping with sexual assault, and the murder of her sister.

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Dorothy Osborne

Dorothy Osborne, Lady Temple was a British writer of letters, which have been published several times since their initial 1888 appearance in print.

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Marjorie Hillis

Marjorie Hillis wrote popular nonfiction books for women in the 1930s, including the bestseller Live Alone and Like It, an advice book for young women on how to live independently.

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