Patricia Highsmith
American novelist and short story writer widely known for her psychological thrillers, including her series of five novels featuring the character Tom Ripley
pseudonymous women writers
George Eliot
English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era
Elena Ferrante
Pseudonymous Italian novelist
E. M. Delafield
Prolific English author
Isak Dinesen
Danish author who wrote works in Danish and English
Agatha Christie
English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple
Charlotte Bronte
English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Bront sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature
Emily Bronte
English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature
A. S. Byatt
English novelist, poet and Booker Prize winner, and won the 2017 Park Kyong-ni Prize
Louisa May Alcott
American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo’s Boys . Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many well-known intellectuals of the day, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.Alcott’s family suffered from financial difficulties, and while she worked to help support the family from an early age, she also sought an outlet in writing