20th-century women writers

Allende, Isabel (1942-)

Barnes, Djuna (1892-1982)

Bowen, Elizabeth (1899-1973)

Bowles, Jane (1917-1973)

Boyle, Kay (1902-1992)

Byatt, A.S. (1936- )

Cather, Willa (1873-1947)

Cisneros, Sandra (1954- )

Didion, Joan (1934- )

Dinesen, Isac (Karen Blixen) (1885-1962)

Erdrich, Louise (1954- )

Glasgow, Ellen (1873-1945)

Glaspell, Susan (1876-1948 )

Gordimer, Nadine (1923- )

Hurston, Zora Neale (1891-1960)

Jackson, Shirley (1919-1965)

Kincaid, Jamaica (1949- )

Larsen, Nella (1891-1964)

Lee, Harper (1926- )

Lessing, Doris (1919- )

Mitchell, Margaret (1900-1949)

Mansfield, Katherine (1888-1923)

Morrison, Toni (1931- )

Porter, Katherine Anne (1890-1980)

Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan (1896-1953)

Rhys, Jean (1890-1979)

Roy, Arundhati (1961- )

Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946)

Tan, Amy (1952- )

Walker, Alice (1944- )

Welty, Eudora (1909-2001)

Wharton, Edith (1862-1937)

Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941)

Angelou, Maya

Armantrout, Rae (1947-)

Berssenbrugge, Mei-Mei (1947-)

Bishop, Elizabeth

Bogan, Louise

Dove, Rita

Dunbar-Nelson, Alice (1875-1935)

Fraser, Kathleen (1935-)

Graham, Jorie

Guest, Barbara

H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)

Hejinian, Lyn (1941-)

Howe, Fanny (1940-)

Howe, Susan (1937-)

Levertov, Denise

Lowell, Amy (1874-1925)

Lorde, Audre

Loy, Mina

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Moore, Marianne

Niedecker, Lorine

Olds, Sharon (1942- )

Ozick, Cynthia

Plath, Sylvia

Rich, Adrienne

Riding, Laura

Sexton, Anne

Smith, Stevie

Stein, Gertrude

Wakoski, Diane

Waldman, Anne

Walker, Alice