20th-century women writers


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fiction & drama

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)

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)

Rhys, Jean (1890-1979)

Roy, Arundhati (1961- )

Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946)

Tan, Amy (1952- )

Welty, Eudora (1909-2001)

Wharton, Edith (1862-1937)

Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941)


poetry

Angelou, Maya

Armantrout, Rae

Berssenbrugge, Mei-Mei

Bishop, Elizabeth

Bogan, Louise

DiPrima, Diane

Dove, Rita

Fraser, Kathleen

Graham, Jorie

Guest, Barbara

H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)

Hejinian, Lyn

Howe, Fanny

Howe, Susan

Kyger, Joanne

Levertov, Denise

Lorde, Audre

Loy, Mina

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Moore, Marianne

Niedecker, Lorine

Ozick, Cynthia

Plath, Sylvia

Rich, Adrienne

Riding, Laura

Sexton, Anne

Smith, Stevie

Stein, Gertrude

Wakoski, Diane

Waldman, Anne


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