Pearl Bailey
African-American actress, singer, comedian and author.
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Edith Ronne
Antarctic explorer
Jennie Collins
In 1870, Jennie Collins founded Boffin’s Bower in Boston to provide working women with a place to read and socialize, as well as food, clothing, job placement, and other aid.
Ada Ramsay
Canadian schoolteacher, author, and historian
Joséphine Marchand
Canadian journalist, writer, lecturer, and feminist activist
Larissa Behrendt
Indigenous Australian activist, filmmaker, academic, lawyer and writer
Victoria Aveyard
Author of the No. 1 New York Times bestselling Red Queen series.
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Judith Ortiz Cofer was one of a number of Latina writers who rose to prominence during the 1980s and 1990s.
Dr Margaret Walker
Margaret Walker’s novel Jubilee, published in 1966, is one of the first novels to present the nineteenth-century African American historical experience in the South from an African-American and female point of view.
Priyanka Champaneri
Priyanka Champaneri’s debut novel The City of Good Death won the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, was a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, longlisted for India’s Tata Literature Live! First Book Award, and named one of NPR’s 2021 Books We Love.