Writer Archives - Page 89 of 258

Sarah Knowles Bolton

Prolific writer of biographical studies, poetry, and a temperance novel.

Mary Spear Tiernan

Movelist, essayist, and occasional poet who wrote primarily about central Virginia before and during the American Civil War (1861–1865).

Marion Harland was a writer of novels, short stories, biographies, travel narratives, cookbooks, and domestic manuals whose career stretched across seven decades of sectional conflict and great change in American life.

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

Writer, historian, and lecturer, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese is a pioneer in the field of women’s studies, having shaped Emory University’s Institution of Women’s Studies as its first director from 1986 to 1991.

Rosemary Daniell

A writer and a teacher of writing, Rosemary Daniell is known for her provocative poems and memoirs.

Eleanor Ross Taylor

Eleanor Ross Taylor was a poet, short-fiction author, and literary critic.

Ruby Altizer Roberts

Ruby Altizer Roberts is the author of two collections of poetry, three memoirs, a children’s book, and a genealogy. She was named Virginia’s first female poet laureate in 1950 and, until 1994, was the only woman to have held the post.

Virginia Moore

Poet, biographer, and scholar, perhaps best known for her work Virginia Is a State of Mind (1942), which has been described as the “biography of a state.”