Playwright Alice Childress photographed with the stars of her interracial love story "Wedding Band", Ruby Dee and James Broderick, in August 1972.
English born author, actress, educator Susanna Rowson Nee Haswell. Daughter of Royal Navy officer, raised in Massachusetts 1768-78. A governess in...
Pulitzer Prize winning author Shirley Ann Grau was recognized for her work The Keepers of the House in 1965.
Sculptural bust of the Greek lyric poetess Sappho; marble, 7th century BC from the Archaeological Museum, Istanbul, Turkey. This is a Roman copy of a...
Isabel Allende is a Chilean-American writer.Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the magic realist tradition, is famous for novels such...
Gertrude Stein, one of the world's foremost novelists, poses with Alice B Toklas, and her dog, Basket, in front of her home in France. The grand lady...
San Francisco: One of science fiction's leading authors, Ursula K. LeGuin has been writing for years while raising a family in Portland, Oregon, and...
American poet Adrienne Rich gestures and smiles while sitting in an office at W. W. Norton Publishers, 500 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
Portrait of American author Edith Wharton sitting with one arm propped on the back of a sofa, wearing a long necklace.
Playwright Lorraine Hansberry , the first African-American female author to have a play performed on Broadway, in her Greenwich Village Apartment,...
Anita Desai, Indian novelist, circa 1995. Born of German and Bengali parents, Desai grew up speaking several languages but has always considered...
Christine de Pizan, seated on a chair in carved wood with back canopy, and tapestry of worsted or figured silk. The box or chest which formed the...
The statue of poetess Xue Tao who lived in the 9th century, in Wangjiang Lou Tower Park in Chengdu , China.
Aphra Behn, Sir Peter Lely, 1618–1680, Dutch, active in England , ca. 1670, Oil on canvas, Support : 30 1/4 x 25 1/4 inches , costume, oval,...
English novelist Mary Elizabeth Braddon , best remembered for her invention of the beautiful blonde criminal.
Photo of poet Sara Teasdale, winner of the Poetry Society Prize, the first prize for poetry in America. Photo shows Teasdale seated and holdiing a...
George Sand , French writer, feminist. Around 1865. Carte-de-visite-Photography by Felix Gaspard Nadar, Paris. [George Sand , franzoesische...
Science Fiction Writer Ursula K. Le Guin poses for portrait in her house on July 5, 2001 in Portland, Oregon.
Italian author Natalia Ginzburg, whose work explores family relationships, politics during and after the Fascist years and World War II, and...
Christina Georgina Rossetti, English poet, . Christina Rossetti was the sister of artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Supplement to The Bookman, 1912.
