Alice Walker
American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist
21st-century american women writers
Susan Vreeland
American author
Anne Tyler
American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic
Donna Tartt
American author
Amy Tan
American author known for the novel The Joy Luck Club, which was adapted into a film of the same name in 1993 by director Wayne Wang
Rebecca Solnit
American writer
Dava Sobel
American writer of popular expositions of scientific topics
Rebecca Skloot
American science writer who specializes in science and medicine
Stacy Schiff
American former editor, essayist, and author of five biographies; her biography of Vera Nabokov, the wife and muse of the Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in biography
Carol Shields
American-born Canadian novelist and short story writer