Bailey White first achieved popularity reading her local color essays on National Public Radio. Her distinctive, gravelly voice and her gift for portraying eccentric people and unusual situations with a gently self-deprecating wit won her a national following.
Bettie Sellers is best known for her poems about life in southern Appalachia.
South African writer and painter
Melissa Fay Greene’s award-winning books Praying for Sheetrock and The Temple Bombing chronicle dramatic episodes in the civil rights movement in Georgia (U.S.).
Award-winning American novelist
1800s Irish author and feminist reformer
South African social researcher and activist
A fierce non-sectarian and advocate for racial equality and women’s rights in South Africa
Rica Hodgson devoted her life to the struggle for democracy in South Africa
South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist