Anna Akhmatova

Karen Alkalay-Gut

Isabel Allende

Julia Alvarez

Ama Aidoo

Maya Angelou

Margaret Atwood

Mariama Ba

Maeve Binchy

Elizabeth Bishop

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Gwedolyn Brooks

Rita Mae Brown

Mary Casanova

Willa Cather

Kate Chopin

Agatha Christie

Caryl Churchill

Beverly Cleary

Colette

Ivy Compton Burnett

Edwidge Danticat

Diane DiPrima

Annie Dillard

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Hilda Doolittle (H.D.)

Mary Doria Russell

Rita Dove

Suzette Haden Elgin

Louise Erdrich

Laura Esquivel

Zelda Fitzgerald

Fannie Flagg

Carolyn Forché

Anne Frank