Ruth Reichl
American chef, food writer, co-producer of PBS’s Gourmet’s Diary of a Foodie, culinary editor for the Modern Library, host of PBS’s Gourmet’s Adventures With Ruth, and the last editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine
20th-century american women writers
Dorothy Parker
American poet, writer, critic, and satirist based in New York; she was best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles
Nancy Pearl
American librarian, best-selling author, literary critic and the former Executive Director of the Washington Center for the Book at Seattle Public Library
Katherine Anne Porter
American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist
Gloria Naylor
American novelist, known for novels including The Women of Brewster Place , Linden Hills and Mama Day .
Kathleen Norris
American novelist and newspaper columnist
Flannery O’Connor
American novelist, short story writer and essayist
Carson McCullers
American novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet
Margaret Mitchell
American novelist and journalist
C. L. Moore
American science fiction and fantasy writer, who first came to prominence in the 1930s writing as C. L. Moore