Betty Friedan
American feminist writer and activist
20th-century american women writers
M. F. K. Fisher
American food writer
Jennifer Egan
American novelist and short-story writer
Nora Ephron
American journalist, writer, and filmmaker
Anita Desai
Indian novelist and the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joan Didion
American writer
Annie Dillard
American author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and non-fiction
Eleanor Clark
American writer and “master stylist,” best known for her non-fiction accounts.
Edwidge Danticat
Haitian-American novelist and short story writer
Dorothy Day
American journalist, social activist and anarchist who, after a bohemian youth, became a Catholic without abandoning her social and anarchist activism