Jo Walton
Welsh-Canadian fantasy and science fiction writer and poet
women science fiction and fantasy writers
Sylvia Townsend Warner
English novelist, poet and musicologist, known for works such as Lolly Willowes, Whether a Dove or a Seagull, and After the Death of Don Juan.
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
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus , which is considered an early example of science fiction
J. K. Rowling
British author, philanthropist, film producer, and screenwriter
Ayn Rand
Russian-American writer and philosopher
Anne Rice
American author of gothic fiction, erotic literature, and Christian literature
C. L. Moore
American science fiction and fantasy writer, who first came to prominence in the 1930s writing as C. L. Moore
Doris Lessing
British-Zimbabwean novelist
Madeleine L’Engle
American writer of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and young adult fiction, including A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels: A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time