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page 1American women magazine editors

Emily Greene Balch
American economist and writer
Anna Wintour
Dame Anna Wintour is a British and American media executive who served as editor-in-chief of Vogue from 1988 to 2025. Currently, Wintour serves as global chief content officer and artist director at Condé Nast. Known for her trademark pageboy bob haircut and dark sunglasses, Wintour is regarded as the most powerful woman in publishing, and has become an important figure in the fashion world, serving as the lead chairperson of the annual haute couture Met Gala global fashion spectacle in Manhattan since the 1990s. Wintour is praised for her skill in identifying emerging fashion trends, but has been criticised for her reportedly aloof and demanding personality.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
American feminist, writer, artist, and lecturer (1860–1935)
Martha Stewart
American businesswoman, writer, TV personality (born 1941)
Rashida Jones
American actress, writer, and producer (born 1976)
Lydia Maria Child
American abolitionist, author and women's rights activist (1802-1880)

Zitkala-Sa
Zitkala-Ša, also Zitkála-Šá (Lakota: , meaning Red Bird; February 22, 1876 – January 26, 1938), was a Yankton Dakota writer, editor, translator, musician, educator, and political activist. She was also known by her anglicized and married name, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin. She wrote several works chronicling her struggles with cultural identity, and the pull between the majority culture in which she was educated, and the Dakota culture into which she was born and raised. Her later books were among the first works to bring traditional Native American stories to a widespread white English-speaking re

Crystal Eastman
American lawyer and feminist
Roxane Gay
American writer

Holly Black
American children's fiction writer
Diana Vreeland
American magazine editor (1903–1989)
Helen Gurley Brown
American author, publisher, and businesswoman (1922–2012)
Harriet Monroe
American poet and editor (1860-1936)
Barbara Gittings
American librarian, LGBT rights activist (1932–2007)
Nina García
Colombian fashion journalist and reality TV judge
Rachel Kushner
writer from the United States (b. 1968)
Gayle King
American television personality, author and broadcast journalist for CBS News
Joan Evans
American actress

Margaret Caroline Anderson
American editor, author (1886–1973)
Kathleen Howard
Opera singer, actress, magazine editor (1884–1956)
Shana Alexander
American journalist (1925–2005)
Cristina Saralegui
American journalist
Mary Cynthia Dickerson
American herpetologist, museum curator and magazine editor
Lucy Larcom
American teacher, poet, author (1824-1893)
Susan Goldberg
American journalist and first female Editor-In-Chief of National Geographic Magazine
Ariel Levy
American writer
Aline Kominsky-Crumb
artist (1948–2022)
Sanora Babb
Αmerican writer (1907-2005)

Barbara Cushing
American editor and socialite (1915-1978)

Mary Louise Booth
American editor, translator and writer

Jane Cunningham Croly
American journalist (1829–1901)
Peggy Nadramia
American Satanist

China Machado
former fashion model, editor and television producer
Phoebe Palmer
American evangelist and writer (1807–1874)

Grace Mirabella
American magazine editor
Ann Nocenti
American journalist, comic book writer and editor
Jennifer Ouellette
American science writer
Helen Zia
American journalist
Stacy London
American stylist, fashion consultant, author, and magazine editor
Robin Givhan
American fashion editor

Jean Liedloff
American writer and editor (1926–2011)

Elaine Welteroth Singletary
American journalist and editor
Lucy Rose Mallory
American writer, publisher, newspaper editor (1846–1920)
Metta Victoria Fuller
American writer (1831-1885)

Barbara Grier
writer
Katrina vanden Heuvel
American writer, editor, publisher, activist
Holly Palance
American actress
Lauren Santo Domingo
American magazine editor
Deborah Turbeville
American photographer (1932–2013)

Françoise Mouly
artist and editor from France
Isabella Macdonald Alden
American writer (1841-1930)

Jean Stein
American writer and editor (1934-2017)
Jane Heap
American artist, editor, publisher (1883-1964)
Bessie Beatty
American journalist, editor, playwright, and radio host (1886–1947)

Gloria Becker Lubkin
American science journalist and editor (1933-2020)
Mabel Potter Daggett
American writer, journalist, editor and suffragist
Janice Min
American journalist, magazine editor, columnist, talk-show host, author
Atoosa Rubenstein
Iranian editor
Barbara Goldsmith
American journalist (1937–2016)
Joan Juliet Buck
American actress and writer