Writers, Poets and Journalists

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Madeleine de Scudéry, French Author, born 15th November 1607

Dorothe Engelbretsdetter, Norwegian Author, born 16th January 1634
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Madame de La Fayette, French Writer, born 18th March 1634

Aphra Behn, British Playwright, Poet & Writer, born 14th December 1640

Elizabeth Carter, British Writer, Classicist & Translator, born 16th December 1717
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Elizabeth Montagu, British Literary Hostess & Writer, born 2nd October 1718

Mary Katherine Goddard, American Publisher & Postmistress, born 16th June 1738

Hester Thrale, British Diarist and Author, born 27th January 1741
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Judith Sargent Murray, Writer and Women's Rights Advocate, born 1st May 1751
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Mary Wollstonecraft, British Writer and Philosopher, born 27th April 1759
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Elizabeth Simcoe, Canadian Artist and Diarist, born 22nd September 1762
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Caroline Schelling, German Intellectual and Writer, born 2nd September 1763
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Ann Radcliffe, British Author, born 9th July 1764

Maria Edgeworth, Anglo Irish Writer, born 1st January 1768 

Agnes Bulmer, English Poet, born 31st August 1775

Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Anti-Slavery Writer, born 25th November 1778
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Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, French Poet, born 20th June 1786

Anna Brownell Jameson, Irish Writer, born 17th May 1794

Mary Shelley, British Writer, born 30th August 1797

Frederika Bremer, Finnish/Swedish Writer & Feminist, born 17th August 1801

Harriet Martineau, British Sociologist and Writer, born 12th June 1802

Flora Tristan, French Socialist Writer & Activist, born 7th April 1803
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Marie d'Agoult, French Author, born 31st December 1805

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, British Poet, born 6th March 1806

Mary Peabody Mann, American Educator & Writer, born 16th November 1806

Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish Author, born 8th August 1807

Fanny Kemble, British Writer and Actress, born 27th November 1809
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Margaret Fuller, American Journalist, born 23rd May 1810

Elizabeth Gaskell, British Writer and Novelist, born 29th September 1810

Harriet Beecher Stowe, American Author, born 14th June 1811

Camilla Collett, Norwegian Feminist Writer, born 23rd January 1813
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Harriet Ann Jacobs, African-American writer, born 11th February 1813

Ellen Wood, British Novelist, born 17th January 1814

Emily Bronte, English novelist and poet, born 30th July 1818

Eliza Cook, British Poet, born 24th December 1818

Louise Otto-Peters, German Writer, Poet & Activist, born 26th March 1819
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George Eliot, British Author, born 22nd November 1819

Lucretia Peabody Hale, American Author & Journalist, born 2nd September 1820

Mary Livermore, American Journalist & Activist, born 19th December 1820
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Jane Elgee Wilde, Irish Poet & Activist, born 27th December 1821
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Frances E. Watkins Harper, Black American Poet and Abolitionist, born 24th September 1825
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Adelaide Anne Procter, British Poet and Philanthropist, born 30th October 1825
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Dinah Craik, British Poet and Novelist, born 20th April 1826

Margaret Oliphant, Scottish Novelist/Historical Writer, born 4th April 1828

Christina Rossetti, British Poet, born 5th December 1830

Emily Dickinson, American Poet, born 10th December 1830

Mary Mapes Dodge, American Writer and Editor, born 26th January 1831

Amelia Edwards, British Writer & Egyptologist, born 7th June 1831
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Kate Harrington, American Teacher, Writer & Poet, born 20th September 1831
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Virginie Loveling, Belgian Writer, born 17th May 1836

Juliette Adam, French Author and Feminist, born 4th October 1836

Rosalía de Castro, Galician Poet, born 24th February 1837

Flora Adams Darling, American Author, born 25th July 1840

Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish Writer, born 6th June 1841

Lydia Koidula, Estonian Poet, born 24th December 1843

Ada Cambridge, British Australian Writer, born 21st November 1844

Rita Cetina Gutiérrez, Mexican Teacher, Poet, Feminist, born 22nd May 1846
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Annie Besant, British women's rights activist and writer, born 1st October 1847
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Emma Lazarus, American Poet, born 22nd July 1849

Sarah Orne Jewett, American Novelist and Poet, born 3rd September 1849

Kate Chopin, American Author, born 8th February 1850
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Laura E. Richards, American Author, born 27th February 1850

Kate Douglas Wiggin, American Educator & Author, born 28th September 1856
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Ida Tarbell, American teacher, author and journalist, born 5th November 1857

Edith Nesbit, British Author, born 15th August 1858

Helen Churchill Candee, American Feminist & Writer, born 5th October 1858

Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish Author & Nobel prize winner, born 20th November 1858

Marie Bashkirtseff, Ukranian diarist, painter & sculptor, born 24th November 1858
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American Sociologist & Author, born 3rd July 1860
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Helen Keller, American Deafblind Writer & Lecturer, born 27th June 1860

Corinne Roosevelt, American Poet and Public Speaker, born 27th September 1861

Dorothy Dix, American Journalist, born 18th November 1861

Ida B. Wells, African American journalist, born 16th July 1862

Florence Bailey, American ornithologist and nature writer, born 8th August 1863
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Marguerite Durand, French Journalist, Actress & Suffragette, born 24th January 1864
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Nellie Bly, American Journalist, born 5th May 1864

Kamini Roy, Indian poet, social worker and feminist, born 12th October 1864
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Elinor Glyn, British Author and Scriptwriter, born 17th October 1864
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Lily Braun, German Feminist Writer, born 2nd July 1865

Alicia Amherst, British Horticulturalist & Author, born 30th July 1865

Nina Boyle, British Journalist & Welfare Worker, born 21st December 1865
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Beatrix Potter, British Author, born 28th July 1866

Laura Ingalls Wilder, American Writer, Teacher & Pioneer, born 7th February 1867

Marie Bregendahl, Danish Writer, born 6th November 1867

Mary Hunter Austin, American Nature Writer & Feminist, born 9th September 1868

Kate Carew, American Caricaturist and Interviewer, born 27th June 1869
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Zinaida Hippius, Russian Poet, Writer and Thinker, born 20th November 1869

Louise Mack, Australian poet, journalist and novelist, born 10th October 1870

Delilah L. Beasley, African American Historian and Journalist, born 9th September 1871

Grazia Deledda, Italian Writer & Nobel Prize winner, born 27th September 1871

Christabel Marshall, British Playwright & Campaigner, born 24th October 1871

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, French Writer & Performer, born 28th January 1873

Marija Juric Zagorka, Croatian Writer and Journalist, born 2nd March 1873

Dorothy Richardson, British Author and Journalist, born 17th May 1873

Willa Cather, American Author, born 7th December 1873

Laura Adams Armer, American Writer and Artist, born 12th January 1874

​Gertrude Stein, American Writer & Art Collector, born 3rd February 1874

Amy Lowell, American Poet, born 9th February 1874

Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, Croatian Writer, born 18th April 1874

Zona Gale, Pulitzer Prize winning American Author, born 26th 1874

Marika Stiernstedt, Author & Chair of Swedish Writers Union, born 12th January 1875
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Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, American Children's Author & Illustrator, born 25th October 1875
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Zitkala-Sa, Sioux Writer, Editor, Musician and Activist, born 22nd February 1876
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Sibilla Aleramo, Italian Author and Feminist, born 14th August 1876

Harriet Shaw Weaver, British Editor & Political Activist, born 1st September 1876
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Natalie Clifford Barney, American-French Playwright, born 31st October 1876

Mazo de la Roche, Canadian Author, born 15th January 1879

Catherine Carswell, Scottish Journalist, Writer & Biographer, born 27th March 1879

Kathleen Norris, American Author, born 16th July 1880

Radclyffe Hall, British Poet, Writer and Activist, born 12th August 1880
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Julia Peterkin, American Writer, born 31st October 1880

Louella Parsons, American Columnist and Screenwriter, born 6th August 1881
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Virginia Woolf, British Writer and Feminist, born 25th January 1882

Jessie Redmon Fauset, African American Editor & Writer, born 27th April 1882

Sigrid Undset, Norwegian Novelist & Nobel Prize winner , born 20th May 1882

Grete Gulbransson, Austrian Writer and Poet, born 31st July 1882

Elizabeth Craig, Scottish Journalist & Cookery Writer, born 16th February 1883

Ethel Anderson, Australian Poet and Artist, born 16th March 1883

Daisy Turner, African American Storyteller and Poet, born 21st June 1883

Katherine Prichard, Australian Author and Activist, born 4th December 1883
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Anna Vyrubova, Russian Writer, born 16th July 1884

Cornelia Meigs, American Writer, born 6th December 1884

Karen Blixen, Danish Author, born 17th April 1885

Dorothea Mackellar, Australian Author and Poet, born 1st July 1885

Nettie Palmer, Australian Author and Literary Critic, born 18th August 1885

Sophie Treadwell, American Playwright and Journalist, born 3rd October 1885

Clara Nordstrom, Swedish/German Writer & Translator, born 18th January 1886

Marthe Bibesco, Romanian/French Writer, born 28th January 1886
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Hella Wuolijoki, Estonian/Finnish Writer, born 22nd July 1886

Dora Gabe, Bulgarian Poet, born 26th August 1886

Jeanie Macpherson, American 
​Actress, Writer & Director, born 18th May 1887
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Amber Reeves, New Zealand/British Feminist Writer, born 1st July 1887

Hedwig "Vicki" Baum, Austrian Author, born 24th January 1888

Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand Author, born 14th October 1888

Thea von Harbou, German actress, author & director, born 27th December 1888
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Gabriela Mistral, Chilean Poet & Nobel Prize Winner, born 7th April 1889

Anita Loos, American Screenwriter, Playwright & Author, born 26th April 1889

Anna Akhmatova, Russian Poet, born 23rd June 1889

Zerna Sharp, American Educator and Author, born 12th August 1889

Teresa de la Parra, Venezuelan Novelist, born 5th October 1889

Nina Hamnett, Welsh Artist and Writer, born 14th February 1890
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Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American Writer, Activist and Environmentalist, born 7th April 1890
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Katherine Anne Porter, American Writer & Journalist, born 15th May 1890

Jean Rhys, British Writer, born 24th August 1890

Agatha Christie, British Crime Writer, born 15th September 1890

​Laura Salverson, Canadian Author, born 9th December 1890

Kate Roberts, Welsh Nationalist & Author, born 13th February 1891

Grace Lumpkin, American Gorky Prize winning Author, born 3rd March 1891

Nella Larsen, African American Nurse and Author, born 13th April 1891

Dorothy P. Lathrop, American Writer and Illustrator, born 16th April 1891

Esther Forbes, American Pulitzer Prize winning Author, born 28th June 1891

Nelly Sachs, German Writer and Nobel Prize winner, born 10th December 1891

Juana de Ibarbourou, Uruguayan Poet, born 8th March 1892

Vita Sackville-West, British Author and Gardener, born 9th March 1892

Janet Flanner, American Journalist & Writer, born 13th March 1892

Maud Hart Lovelace, American Author, born 25th April 1892

Alfonsina Storni, Swiss born Argentinian Poet, born 29th May 1892

Djuna Barnes, American Writer and Illustrator, born 12th June 1892
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Pearl S. Buck, American Writer, born 26th June 1892

Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian Poet, born 8th October 1892

​Rebecca West, British Author, Journalist & Critic, born 21st December 1892

Dorothy L. Sayers, British Writer and Humanist, born 13th June 1893
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Freya Stark, British Explorer and Travel Writer, born 31st January 1893

Mercedes de Acosta, American Poet, Playwright & Author,born 1st March 1893

Wanda Gág, American Author and Illustrator, born 11th March 1893
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Elisaveta Bagrjana, Bulgarian Poet, born 29th April 1893

Dorothy Fuldheim, American Journalist & TV Anchor, born 26th June 1893
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Dorothy Parker, American Writer, Critic & Satirist, born 22nd August 1893

Faith Baldwin, American Novelist, born 1st October 1893

Alice Dalgliesh, British American Author and Publisher, born 7th October 1893

Lois Lenski, American Writer and Illustrator, born 14th October 1893

Vera Brittain, British writer, feminist and pacifist, born 29th December 1893
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Katherine Milhous, American Writer & Illustrator, born 27th November 1894

Muna Lee, American/Puerto Rican Poet and Activist, born 29th January 1895
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Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand Writer & Theatre Director, born 23rd April 1895

Marie Hall Ets, American Writer and Illustrator, born 16th December 1895

Carol Ryrie Brink, American Author, born 28th December 1895

Ruth Rose, American Screenwriter, born 16th January 1896

Dodie Smith, British Novelist and Playwright, born 3rd May 1896

Dorothy Lawrence, British War Reporter, born 4th October 1896

Shirley Graham Du Bois, Black American Writer & Activist, born 11th November 1896

Joan Lindsay, Australian Author, born 16th November 1896

Dawn Powell, American Author and Diarist, born 28th November 1896

Betty Smith, American Writer, born 15th December 1896

Louise Bogan, American Poet and Editor, born 11th August 1897

Enid Blyton, British Author, born 11th August 1897
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Sally Benson, American Screenwriter and Author, born 3rd September 1897

Dorothy Day, American Journalist & Social Activist, born 8th November 1897

Mary Brooksbank, Scottish Activist, Musician and Poet, born 15th December 1897

Carolyn Haywood, American Author and Illustrator, born 3rd January 1898
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Rosa Chacel, Spanish Writer and Feminist, born 3rd June 1898

Winifred Holtby, English novelist and journalist, born 23rd June 1898

Elizabeth Bowen, Irish Writer, born 7th June 1899

Ruth Schaumann, German Poet, Sculptor & Illustrator, born 24th August 1899

Helen Creighton, Canadian Folklorist, born 5th September 1899
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Kate Seredy, Hungarian-American Writer & Illustrator, born 10th November 1899
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Mary Margaret McBride, American Journalist & Radio Host, born 16th November 1899
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Kathryn Hulme, American Author and Memoirist, born 6th January 1900
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Halina Konopacka, Polish Olympic Athlete & Poet, born 26th February 1900
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Laura Z. Hobson, American Writer, born 19th June 1900

Frederica Sagor Maas, American Playwright and Author, born 6th July 1900

Nathalie Sarraute, Russian-French Writer, born 18th July 1900

Margaret Mitchell, American Writer, born 8th November 1900

Anna Seghers, German Writer and Activist, born 19th November 1900
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Alice Rivaz, Swiss Author and Feminist, born 14th August 1901

Eileen Shanahan, Irish Poet, born 28th October 1901

Stella Gibbons, British Author and Journalist, born 5th January 1902 
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Kay Boyle, American Writer and Political Activist, born 19th February 1902
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Christina Stead, Australian Author, born 17th July 1902

Georgette Heyer, British Novelist, born 16th August 1902

Marya Zaturenska, Ukranian American Poet, born 12th September 1902

Bea Miles, Australian Writer and Eccentric, born 17th September 1902
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Stevie Smith, British Novelist and Poet, born 20th September 1902

Anaïs Nin, Cuban/French/American Writer, born 21st February 1903

Clare Boothe Luce, American Writer, Editor, Politician, born 10th March 1903

Dorothy Schiff, American Newspaperwoman, born 11th March 1903

Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian Novelist & Essayist, born 8th June 1903

Cecile de Brunhoff, French storyteller & Babar creator, born 16th October 1903

Lin Huiyin, Chinese Architect and Writer, born 10th June 1904
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Mary Cain, American Newspaper Editor, born 17th August 1904

Ève Curie, French American Journalist, Writer & Pianist, born 6th December 1904

Eugenia Ginzburg, Russian Author, born 20th December 1904

Ayn Rand, Russian born Philosopher & Playwright, born 2nd February 1905

Mildred Benson, American Journalist & Author, born 10th July 1905

Dorothy Fields, American Lyricist, born 15th July 1905
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Era Bell Thompson, African American Journalist & Editor, born 10th August 1905

Mary Renault, British South African Writer, born 4th September 1905
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Sally Salminen, Finnish Author, born 25th April 1906

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American Author & Aviator, born 22nd June 1906
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Natalie Carlson, American Children's Author, born 3rd October 1906

Iryna Vilde, Ukranian Writer, born 5th May 1907

Daphne Du Maurier, British Author, born 13th May 1907

Dorothy West, African American Writer, born 2nd June 1907

Elspeth Huxley, British Polymath, Environmentalist & Writer, born 23rd July 1907
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Mary Hamman, American Writer and Editor, born 2nd August 1907

Helen Foster Snow, American Journalist, born 21st September 1907

Helen MacInnes, Scottish American Author, born 7th October 1907

Astrid Lindgren, Swedish Author & Screenwriter, born 14th November 1907
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Fleur Cowles, American Writer & Illustrator, born 20th January 1908
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Leela Majumdar, Bengali Writer, born 26th February 1908

Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, American Author, born 5th April 1908

Betty Jeffrey, Australian WW2 Nurse and Author, born 14th May 1908

Diana Morgan, Welsh Playwright and Screenwriter, born 29th May 1908

Julie Campbell, American Author & Literary Agent, born 1st June 1908

Rica Erickson, Australian Naturalist, Author & Artist, born 10th August 1908

Bronislawa Wajs "Papusza", Polish Romani Poet, born 17th August 1908

Jeanne Stern, French/German Writer & Translator, born 20th August 1908

MM Kaye, British Writer, born 21st August 1908

Mercè Rodoreda, Catalan Novelist, born 10th October 1908

Martha Gellhorn, American Writer & Journalist, born 8th November 1908

Elizabeth George Speare, American Children's Author, born 21st November 1908

Mária Szepes, Hungarian Author, born 14th December 1908

Ketti Frings, American Author & Playwright, born 28th February 1909

Virginia Lee Burton, American Author & Illustrator, born 30th August 1909
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Elizabeth Enright, American Writer and Illustrator, born 17th September 1909
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Anni Blomqvist, Finnish Author, born 7th October 1909

Joy Adamson, Austrian Naturalist & Writer, born 20th January 1910
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Margaret Clapp, American Writer and Scholar, born 10th April 1910
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Olga Bergholz, Russian Poet and Activist, born 16th May 1910
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Dorothea Tanning, American Artist and writer, born 25th August 1910

Audrey Wurdemann, American Poet, born 1st January 1911
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Elizabeth Bishop, American Poet and Writer, born 8th February 1911
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Annie M. G. Schmidt, Dutch Writer and Librarian, born 20th May 1911

Johanna Moosdorf, German Author, born 12th July 1911

Barbara Tuchman, American Historian and author, born 30th January 1912
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Marguerite Fawdry, British Museum Curator & Author, born 14th May 1912
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Mary McCarthy, American Writer and Political Activist, born 21st June 1912

Mary Wesley, British Novelist, born 24th June 1912

Essie Summers, New Zealand Author, born 24th July 1912

Maria de la Cruz, Chilean Activist, Journalist, Politician, born 18th September 1912
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Gerda Brautigam, Dutch Political Journalist, born 9th March 1913 (link is in Dutch)

Sylvia Porter, American Economist and Journalist, born 18th June 1913
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Dorothy Woolfolk, American Comic Book Editor, born 11th October 1913

Kersti Merilaas, Estonian Writer and Poet, born 7th December 1913

Muriel Rukeyser, American Poet and Political Activist, born 15th December 1913
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Elyne Mitchell, Australian Author, born 30th December 1913

Barbara Newhall Follett, American Author, born 4th March 1914

Marguerite Duras, French Writer and Film Director, born 4th April 1914
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Zelda Mishkovsky, Israeli Poet, born 20th June 1914

Tove Jansson, Finnish Author and Artist, born 9th August 1914
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Joan Littlewood, British Playwright & Theatre Director, born 6th October 1914
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Nien Cheng, Chinese Author, born 28th January 1915
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Margaret Walker, African American Poet and Writer, born 7th July 1915

Tasha Tudor, American Illustrator & Author, born 28th August 1915
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Fawn M Brodie, American Writer & Biographer, born 15th September 1915

Belva Plain, American Author, born 9th October 1915

Beverly Cleary, American Author, born 12th April 1916

Phyllis Fraser, American Actress, Journalist & Publisher, born 13th April 1916

Helene Hanff, American Author and Screenwriter, born 15th April 1916
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Jane Jacobs, American/Canadian Urban Journalist and Activist, born 4th May 1916
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Henriette Roosenburg, Dutch Journalist, born 26th May 1916

Judith Jasmin, Canadian Journalist, born 10th July 1916

Eve Merriam, American Poet and Writer, born 19th July 1916

Elizabeth Hardwick, American Critic and Writer, born 27th July 1916

Elena Garro, Mexican Writer, born 11th December 1916

Jessica Mitford, British American Writer & Activist, born 11th September 1917
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Han Suyin, Eurasian Physician & Author, born 12th September 1917
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Magda Szabó, Hungarian Writer, born 5th October 1917

Margaret Burroughs, African American Writer, Artist & Historian, born 1st November 1917
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​Muriel Spark, Scottish Novelist, born 1st February 1918

Hella Haasse, Dutch Writer, born 2nd February 1918

Kathryn Tucker Windham, Alabama Storyteller, born 2nd June 1918

Mildred Ladner Thompson, American Journalist, born 24th June 1918

Mary Lee Settle, American Author, born 29th July 1918

Jacqueline Susann, American Author, born 20th August 1918

Mary McGrory, American Journalist, born 22nd August 1918

Pauline Kael, American Film Critic, born 19th June 1919
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Iris Murdoch, Irish Author and Philosopher, born 15th July 1919

Amrita Pritam, Punjabi Writer and Poet, born 31st August 1919

Heda Kovály, Czech Writer, born 15th September 1919

Doris Lessing, British Writer, born 22nd October 1919

Emily Cheney Neville, American Author, born 28th December 1919

Olive Dickason, Canadian Historian & Journalist, born 6th March 1920

Gerda Lerner, American Historian, Author & Teacher, born 30th April 1920
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Eleanor Ross Taylor, American Poet, born 30th June 1920

Beah Richards, African American Writer & Actress, born 12th July 1920
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Helen Thomas, American Journalist, born 4th August 1920

Marguerite Higgins, American War Correspondent, born 3rd September 1920

Dachine Rainer, American British Poet and Anarchist, born 13th January 1921
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Betty Friedan, American Feminist, Writer & Activist, born 4th February 1921
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Madelyn Pugh, American TV Producer and Writer, born 15th March 1921
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Elena Lacková, Roma/Slovak Writer and Activist, born 22nd March 1921
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Priscilla Buckley, American Journalist & Editor, born 17th October 1921
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Helen Gurley Brown, American Author and Publisher, born 18th February 1922

Jeanne Sauvé, Canadian Journalist and Politician, born 26th April 1922
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Mary Q Steele, American Author & Naturalist, born 8th May 1922

Doris Burn, American Author and Illustrator, born 24th April 1923
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Dorothy Gilman, American Mystery Author, born 25th June 1923

Bernice Rubens, Welsh Teacher, Film Maker & Author, born 26th July 1923

Nadine Gordimer, South African Writer and Activist, born 20th November 1923
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Eileen Shanahan, American Journalist, born 29th February 1924

June Callwood, Canadian Journalist & Social Activist, born 2nd June 1924
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Janet Frame, New Zealand Author, born 28th August 1924

Eva Ibbotson, Austrian British Children's Writer, born 21st January 1925

Gladys Hansen, American Librarian & Archivist, born 12th June 1925

Ana María Matute, Spanish Writer, born 26th July 1925

Thea Astley, Australian Author, born 25th August 1925

Irina Korschunow, German Writer, born 31st December 1925

Barbara Anderson, New Zealand Author, born 14th April 1926

Harper Lee, American Author, born 28th April 1926

Phyllis Gotlieb, Canadian Novelist and Poet, born 25th May 1926

Elisabeth Beresford, British Author, born 6th August 1926

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German/American Author, born 7th May 1927

Maya Angelou, African American Writer & Activist, born 4th April 1928
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Anne Frank, German/Dutch Diarist, born 12th June 1929

Ursula LeGuin, American Science Fiction Writer, born 21st October 1929

Marilyn French, American Feminist Writer, born 21st November 1929

Hilda Hilst, Brazilian Playwright, Poet and Novelist, born 21st April 1930

Lorraine Hansberry, African American Playwright, born 19th May 1930 (video)
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Dolores Alexander, American Activist and Writer, born 10th August 1931
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Penelope Gilliatt, British Novelist and Screenwriter, born 25th March 1932

Julieta Campos, Cuban-Mexican Writer, born 8th May 1932

Katerina Taikon, Swedish Roma Writer and Activist, born 29th July 1932
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Beryl Bainbridge, British Novelist, born 21st November 1932

Ceija Stojka, Romani-Austrian Writer, Painter and Musician, born 23rd May 1933
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Raquel Correa, Chilean Journalist, born 8th July 1934

Sarah Kirsch, German Poet, born 16th April 1935

June Jordan, African American Writer and Educator, born 9th July 1936

Suzette Haden Elgin, American Sci-Fi Writer, born 18th November 1936

Laurali Rose Wright, Canadian Author, born 5th June 1939

Glenda Adams, Australian Author and Academic, born 30th December 1939

Angela Carter, British Novelist and Journalist, born 7th May 1940

Maeve Binchy, Irish Writer, born 28th May 1940

Katerina Gogou, Greek Anarchist Poet, born 1st June 1940

Octavia Butler, African American Science Fiction Writer, born 22nd June 1947

Lisa Bellear, Aboriginal Australian Writer, Photographer and Activist, born 2nd May 1961