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Pearl S. Buck
American writer (1892–1973)
Toni Morrison
African American novelist, essayist, and academic (1931–2019)
Ayn Rand
Russian-born American writer and public philosopher (1905–1982)
Sylvia Plath
American poet and writer (1932–1963)

Carrie Fisher
American actress, writer and screenwriter (1956–2016)
Ursula K. Le Guin
American fantasy and science fiction author (1929–2018)
Harper Lee
American novelist (1926–2016)
Whoopi Goldberg
American actress, comedian, author and television personality
Isabel Allende
Chilean writer
Margaret Mitchell
American author and journalist (1900–1949)
Martina Navratilova
Czech-American tennis player
Alice Walker
American author and activist (born 1944)

Susan Sontag
American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist (1933–2004)
Edith Wharton
American writer and designer (1862–1937)
Gertrude Stein
American author (1874–1946)
Anne Rice
American writer
Frances Hodgson Burnett
English-American playwright and author (1849–1924)
Jean Harlow
American film actress (1911–1937)
Nora Ephron
American film director and writer (1941–2012)

Ivana Trump
Ivana Marie Trump was a Czech and American businesswoman, socialite, and model. She lived in Canada in the 1970s, before relocating to the United States and marrying Donald Trump in 1977. She held key managerial positions in the Trump Organization, as vice president of interior design, CEO and president of Trump's Castle casino resort, and manager of the Plaza Hotel.
Mary Astor
American actress and author (1906–1987)
Zora Neale Hurston
African American folklorist, novelist, short story writer, and Civic Rights advocate (1891–1960)
Kiran Desai
Indian author
Erica Jong
American novelist, poet, memoirist, critic
Willa Cather
American writer (1873–1947)
Audre Lorde
American writer and feminist activist (1934–1992)
Joyce Carol Oates
American author (born 1938)

Donna Tartt
American writer
Danielle Steel
American writer
Andrea Dworkin
American feminist writer (1946–2005)
Patricia Highsmith
American novelist and short story writer (1921–1995)

Laura Ingalls Wilder
American children's writer, diarist, and journalist (1867-1957)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
American feminist, writer, artist, and lecturer (1860–1935)

Flannery O'Connor
American writer (1925–1964)
Joan Didion
American writer (1934-2021)
Carroll Baker
American actress (born 1931)
Frances Marion
American journalist, author, film director and screenwriter (1888-1973)
Carson McCullers
American writer (1917–1967)
Mary Higgins Clark
American author of suspense novels (1927–2020)
Nora Roberts
American romance writer
Octavia E. Butler
American science fiction writer (1947-2006)
Natalie Clifford Barney
American writer who hosted a literary salon at her home in Paris (1876-1972)
Annie Proulx
American novelist, short story and non-fiction author (b. 1935)
Anita Desai
Indian novelist, University professor (born 1937)
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
German-born British-American author (1927-2013)
Zelda Fitzgerald
American writer (1900–1948)
Djuna Barnes
American Modernist writer, poet and artist (1892-1982)

Amy Tan
American novelist

Katherine Anne Porter
American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist (1890–1980)
Eudora Welty
American short story writer, novelist and photographer (1909-2001)

Lois McMaster Bujold
American novelist (born 1949)
Marilynne Robinson
American novelist and essayist (born 1943)

Barbara Kingsolver
American author, poet and essayist
Edna Ferber
American novelist, short story writer and playwright (1885–1968)
Patricia Cornwell
American novelist, journalist, biographer
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H.D.
Hilda Doolittle (September 10, 1886 – September 27, 1961) was an American modernist poet, novelist, and memoirist who wrote under the name H.D. throughout her life. Her career began in 1911 after she moved to London and co-founded the avant-garde Imagist group of poets with American expatriate poet and critic Ezra Pound. During this early period, her minimalist free verse poems depicting Classical motifs drew international attention. Eventually distancing herself from the Imagist movement, she experimented with a wider variety of forms, including fiction, memoir, and verse drama. Reflecti
Shirley Jackson
American writer (1916-1965)

Marion Zimmer Bradley
American novelist and editor (1930–1999)
Martha Gellhorn
journalist from the United States (1908–1998)
Anne Tyler
American novelist