Eudora Welty
American short story writer, novelist and photographer, who wrote about the American South
20th-century american women writers
Edith Wharton
American novelist, short story writer, and designer
Laura Ingalls Wilder
American writer, mostly known for the Little House on the Prairie series of children’s books, published between 1932 and 1943, which were based on her childhood in a settler and pioneer family.During the 1970s and early 1980s, the television series Little House on the Prairie was loosely based on the Little House books, and starred Melissa Gilbert as Laura and Michael Landon as her father, Charles Ingalls.
Barbara W. Tuchman
American historian and author
Anne Tyler
American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic
Susan Vreeland
American author
Alice Walker
American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist
Gertrude Chandler Warner
American author, mainly of children’s stories
James Tiptree Jr.
American science fiction and fantasy author better known as James Tiptree Jr., a pen name she used from 1967 to her death
Elinore Pruitt Stewart
Homesteader in Wyoming, and a memoirist who between 1909 and 1914 wrote letters describing her life there to a former employer in Denver, Colorado