Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (November 4, 1968) is an Argentine writer. She studied literature at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. In 2006, Cabezón Cámara published the short story…… Read more “Gabriela Cabezón Cámara”
Category: Menagerie of Authors
Isobel English
Isobel English (pen name of June Guesdon Braybrooke, née June Guesdon Jolliffe. 9 June 1920 – 30 May 1994) was an English author. Born in London to…… Read more “Isobel English”
Renée Vivien
Renée Vivien (née Pauline Mary Tarn; 11 June 1877 – 18 November 1909) was a British French-speaking writer. Born in London to a wealthy British father and…… Read more “Renée Vivien”
Shelagh Delaney
Shelagh Delaney (née Sheila Mary Delaney; 25 November 1938 – 20 November 2011) was an English playwright. Born in Broughton, Salford, Lancashire, from a working-class family, Delaney…… Read more “Shelagh Delaney”
Marie Luise Kaschnitz
Marie Luise Kaschnitz (née Marie Luise von Holzing-Berslett; after marriage, Marie Luise Kaschnitz von Weinberg; 31 January 1901 – 10 October 1974) was a German writer. She…… Read more “Marie Luise Kaschnitz”
Maria Firmina dos Reis
Maria Firmina dos Reis (March 11, 1822 – November 11, 1917) was a Brazilian writer. Little is known about her early life. Recent research suggests that the…… Read more “Maria Firmina dos Reis”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (née Marie Dubský von Třebomyslice. September 13, 1830 – March 12, 1916) was an Austrian writer. She was born to an aristocratic family in Moravia (now…… Read more “Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach”
Capel Boake
Capel Boake (pen name of Doris Boake Kerr. 29 August 1889 – 5 June 1944) was an Australian writer. She was born in Sydney, but the family…… Read more “Capel Boake”
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks (Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks, June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an American writer. She was born in Topeka, Kansas, but her family moved to Chicago when…… Read more “Gwendolyn Brooks”
Jessie Redmon Fauset
Jessie Redmon Fauset (born Jessie Redmona Fauset, married name Jessie Redmon Harris. April 27, 1882 – April 30, 1961) was an African-American writer. Fauset was the seventh child of…… Read more “Jessie Redmon Fauset “
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (September 24, 1825 – February 22, 1911) was an African-American writer. Born to free black parents in Baltimore, Maryland, Harper was orphaned when…… Read more “Frances Ellen Watkins Harper”
Harriet E. Wilson
Harriet E. Wilson (born Harriet E. Adams, March 15, 1825 – June 28, 1900) was an African-American writer. Born free in New Hampshire, Harriet was the daughter of…… Read more “Harriet E. Wilson”
Maria Lazar
Maria Lazar (née Maria Franziska Lazar. After marriage, Maria Franziska Strindberg. Pseudonym: Esther Grenen. November 22, 1895 – March 30, 1948) was an Austrian-Jewish writer. Born in…… Read more “Maria Lazar”
Geraldine Jewsbury
Geraldine Jewsbury (Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury, 22 August 1812 – 23 September 1880) was an English writer. When she was six, Jewsbury and her family moved to Manchester. Her…… Read more “Geraldine Jewsbury “
Amy Levy
Amy Levy (Amy Judith Levy, November 10th, 1861 – September 10th, 1889) was an English writer. Born into an upper middle-class Jewish family, Levy was first educated…… Read more “Amy Levy”
Isabel Miller
Isabel Miller (pen name of Alma Routsong, born Elma Louise Routsong, November 26, 1924 – October 4, 1996) was an American author. Miller began college, in 1942,…… Read more “Isabel Miller”
Mourning Dove
Mourning Dove (Hum-Ishu-Ma, also known as Christine/Christal Quintasket. Sometime between 1882 and 1888 – August 8th, 1936) was a Native American author of Okanagan and Colville ancestry. According to…… Read more “Mourning Dove”
Natália Borges Polesso
Natália Borges Polesso (August 6th, 1981) is a Brazilian writer. She holds a PhD in Literary Theory from PUCRS (2017). Her first short-story collection Recortes para álbum…… Read more “Natália Borges Polesso”