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Fujiwara Takako
81 ? Heian-kyo, JP
973 - 1014
Anne Dudley Bradstreet
44 ? Northampton, England, GB
1612 - 1672(09/16)
Phillis Wheatley
? ? ?, Gambia
1753(05/08) - 1784(12/05)
Jane Austen
44 ? Rectory, Steventon, Hampshire, England, GB
1775(12/16) - 1817(07/18)
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley
44 ? Somers Town, London, England, GB
1797(08/30) - 1851(02/01)
Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin
33 ? Paris, FR
1804(07/01) - 1876(06/08)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
44 ? Kelloe, Durham, England, GB
1806(03/06) - 1861(06/29)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
1 06759? Litchfield, CT
1811(06/14) - 1896(07/01)
Charlotte Brontë
44 ? Thornton, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, GB
1816(04/21) - 1855(03/31)
Emily Jane Brontë
44 ? Thornton, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, GB
1818(07/30) - 1848(12/19)
Narcyza Zmichowska
48 ? Warsaw, PL
1819(03/04) - 1876(12/24)
Anne Brontë
44 ? Thornton, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, GB
1820(01/17) - 1849(05/28)
Mary Anne Evans
44 ? South Farm, Arbury Hall, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, GB
1819(11/22) - 1880(12/22)
Johanna Louise Heusser Spyri
? ? Hirzel, CH
1827(06/12) - 1901(07/07)
Emily Dickinson
1 01002? Amherst, MA
1830(12/10) - 1886(05/15)
Christina Georgina Rossetti
44 ? 105 Hallam Street, London, England, GB
1830(12/05) - 1894(12/29)
Louisa May Alcott
1 19104? Germantown, Philadelphia, PA
1832(11/29) - 1888(03/06)
Lucy Maud Montgomery
1CPE ? New London, PE
1874(11/30) - 1942(04/24)
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett
44 ? 141 York Street, Cheetham Hill, Manchester, England, GB
1849(11/24) - 1924(10/29)
Katherine O'Flaherty Chopin
1 ? Saint Louis, MO
1850(02/08) - 1904(08/22)
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf
? ? Mårbacka, Värmland, Sweden
1858(11/20) - 1940(03/16)
Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
1 10101? New York, NY
1862(01/24) - 1937(08/11)
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder
1 ? Pepin, WI
1867(02/07) - 1957(02/10)
Emily Price Post
1 21203? Baltimore, MD
1872(10/27) - 1960(09/25)
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
33 ? Yonne, FR
1873(01/28) - 1954(08/03)
Willa Sibert Cather
1 22637 Gore, Winchester, VA
1873(12/07) - 1947(04/24)
Gertrude Stein
1 ? Allegheny, Pittsburgh, PA
1874(02/03) - 1946(07/27)
Amy Lawrence Lowell
1 02446? Brookline, MA
1874(02/09) - 1925(05/12)
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
1 23232? Richmond, VA
1874(04/22) - 1945(11/21)
Mary Roberts Rinehart
1 15233? Allegheny City, Pittsburgh, PA
1876(08/12) - 1958(09/22)
Sigrid Undset
? ? Kalundborg, Denmark
1882(05/20) - 1949(06/10)
Adeline Virginia Stephen Woolf
44 ? Kensington, London, England, GB
1882(01/25) - 1941(03/28)
Sara Trevor Teasdale Filsinger
1 63166? Saint Louis, MO
1884(08/08) - 1933(01/29)
Elinor Morton Hoyt
1 ? Somerville, NJ
1885(09/07) - 1928(12/16)
Karen von Blixen-Finecke
? ? Rungsted, Hørsholm, Denmark
1885(04/17) - 1962(09/07)
Edna Ferber
1 ? Kalamazoo, MI
1885(008/15) - 1968(04/16)
Hilda Doolittle
1 18016? Bethlehem, PA
1886(09/10) - 1961(09/27)
Marianne Moore
1 63122 manse of the Presbyterian church, Kirkwood, MO
1887(11/15) - 1972(02/05)
Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot
44 ? Bury, Lancashire, England, GB
1888(05/28) - 1947(01/22)
Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry
? ? Wellington, NZ
1888(10/14) - 1923(01/09)
Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga
? ? Vicuña, Chile
1889(04/07) - 1957(01/10)
Anna Andreevna Gorenko
380 ? Bolshoy Fontan, Odessa, UA
1889(06/11) - 1966(03/05)
Callie Russell Porter
1 ? Indian Creek, TX
1890(05/15) - 1980(09/18)
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller Christie
44 ? Torquay, Devon, England, GB
1890(09/15) - 1975(01/12)
Edna Saint Vincent Millay
1 04841 Rockland ME
1892(02/22) - 1950(10/19)
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
1 24946 Hillsboro, WV
1892(06/26) - 1973(03/06)
Cicely Isabel Fairfield
44 ? London, England, GB
1892(12/21) - 1983(03/15)
Dorothy Leigh Sayers(CT-X)
44 ? Oxford, England, GB
1893(06/13) - 1957(12/17)
Dorothy Rothschild Parker
1 ? Long Branch, NJ
1893(08/22) - 1967(06/07)
Enid Mary Blyton
44 ? East Dulwich, South London, England, GB
1897(08/11) - 1968(11/28)
Natacha Tcherniak
7 ? Ivanovo, Russia, SU
1900(07/18) - 1999(10/19)
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell Marsh
1 30301? Atlanta, GA
1900(11/08) - 1949(08/16)
Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland
44 ? Edgbaston, Birmingham, England, GB
1901(07/09) – 2000(05/21)
Christina Stead
61 ? Sydney, AU
1902(07/17) - 1983(03/31)
Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum
7 ? Saint Petersburg, Russia, SU
1905(02/02) - 1982(03/06)
Lillian Florence Hellman
1 70140? New Orleans, LA
1905(06/20) - 1984(06/30)
Astrid Anna Emilia Ericsson Lindgren
46 ? Vimmerby, SE
1907(11/14) - 2002(01/28)
Simone-Ernestine-Lucie-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir
33 ? Paris, FR
1908(01/09) - 1986(04/14)
Eudora Alice Welty
1 39205? Jackson, MS
1909(04/13) - 2001(07/23)
Elizabeth Bishop
1 01613? Worcester, MA
1911(02/08) - 1979(10/06)
Eleanore Marie Sarton
32 ? ? Wondelgem, BE
1912(05/03) - 1995(07/16)
Beverly Atlee Bunn Cleary
1 97128 McMinnville, OR
1916(04/12) - 2021(03/25)
Shirley Jackson
1 94142? San Francisco, CA
1916(12/14) - 1965(08/08)
Lula Carson Smith McCullers
1 31908? Columbus, GA
1917(02/19) - 1967(09/29)
Gwendolyn Brooks
1 66601? Topeka, KS
1917(06/07) - 2000(12/03)
Madeleine L'EngleCT20
1 10001? New York, NY
1918(11/29) - 2007(09/06)
Iris Murdoch
353 ? Dublin, IE
1919(07/15) - 1999(02/08)
Doris May Taylor Lessing
98 ? Kermanshah, IR
1919(10/22) - 2013(11/17)
Phyllis Dorothy James
44 ? Oxford, England, GB
1920(08/03) - 2014(11/27)
Grace Goodside Paley
1 10001? Bronx, NY
1922(12/11) - 2007(08/22)
Wislawa Szymborska
48 ? Bnin, PL
1923(07/02) - 2012(02/01)
Marie Grace DeRepentigny Metalious
1 03103? Manchester, NH
1924(09/08) - 1964(02/25)
Mary Flannery O'Connor
1 31402? Savannah, GA
1925(03/25) - 1964(08/03)
Maxine Winokur Kumin
1 19104? Philadelphia, PA
1925(06/06) - 2014(02/06)
Harper Lee
1 36460? Monroeville, AL
1926(04/28) - 2016(02/19)
Alice Adams
1 22404? Fredericksburg, VA
1926(08/14) - 1999(05/27)
Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark Conheeney
1 10001? New York, NY
1927(12/24) - 2020(01/31)
Marguerite Ann Johnson
1 63166? Saint Louis, MO
1928(04/04) - 2014(05/28)
Takako Doi
81 ? Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, JP
1928(11/30) - 2014(09/20)
Adrienne Cecile Rich
1 21203? Baltimore, MD
1929(05/16) - 2012(03/27)
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
1 94704? Berkeley, CA
1929(10/21) - 2018(01/22)
Marilyn Edwards French
1 10001? Brooklyn, NY
1929(11/21) - 2009(05/02)
Ruth Barbara Rendell
44 ? South Woolford, London, England, GB
1930(02/17) - 2015(05/02)
Lorraine Vivian Hansberry
1 60607? Washington Park, Woodlawn, Chicago, IL
1930(05/19) - 1965(01/12)
Toni Morrison
1 44052? Lorain, OH
1931(02/18) - 2019(08/05)
Sylvia Plath
1 02205? Jamaica Plain, Boston, MA
1932(10/27) - 1963(02/11)
Edna O'Brien
353 ? Tuamgraney, County Clare, IE
1932(12/15)
Susan Rosenblatt Sontag
1 10001? New York, NY
1933(01/16) - 2004(12/28)
Joan Didion
1 95814? Sacramento, CA
1934(12/05) - 2021(12/23)
Carol Ann Warner Shields
1 60303? Oak Park, IL
1935(06/02) - 1957 - 2003(07/16)
Françoise Quoirez
33 ? Cajarc, Lot, FR
1935(06/21) - 2004(09/24)
Edna Ann Proulx
1 06360 Norwich, CT
1935(08/22)
Jean Marie Untinen Auel
1 60607? Chicago, IL
1936(02/18)
Antonia Susan Drabble Byatt Duffy
44 ? Sheffield, England, GB
1936(08/24) - 2023(11/16)
Colleen McCullough-Robinson
61 ? Wellington, New South Wales, AU
1937(06/01) - 2015(01/29)
Gail Kathleen Godwin
1 35203? Birmingham, AL
1937(06/18)
Jacqueline Jill Collins
44 ? London, England, GB
1937(10/04) - 2015(09/19)
Judy Sussmain Blume
1 07207? Elizabeth, NJ
1938(02/13)
Virginia Catherine Bulat Carroll
1 60607? Chicago, IL
1938(03/23) - 1986(12/21)
Joyce Carol Oates
1 14094? Lockport, NY
1938(06/16)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
1CON ? Ottawa, ON
1939(11/18)
Sue Taylor Grafton
1 40232? Louisville, KY
1940(04/24) - 2017(12/28)
Anne Maeve Binchy Snell
353 ? Dalkey, County Dublin, IE
1940(05/28) - 2012(07/30)
Bharati Mukherjee
91 ? Calcutta, West Bengal, IN
1940(07/27) - 2017(01/28)
Maxine Ting Ting Hong Kingston
1 95208? Stockton, CA
1940(10/27)
Anne Rice
1 70140? New Orleans, LA
1941(10/14) – 2021(12/11)
Erica Mann Jong
1 10001? New York, NY
1942(03/26)
Isabel Allende Llona
51 ? Devello, Lima, PE
1942(08/02)
Janet Schneider Evanovich
1 ? South River, NJ
1943(04/22)
Marilynne Summers Robinson
1 83864? Sandpoint, ID
1943(11/26)
Alice Malsenior Walker
1 31024 Eatonton, GA
1944(02/09)
Danielle Fernande Dominique Schuelein-Steel
1 10001? New York, NY
1947(08/14)
Ann Beattie
1 20090? Washington, DC
1947(09/08)
Dorothy Allison
1 29602? Greenville, SC
1949(04/11)
Jane Smiley
1 90086? Los Angeles, CA
1949(09/26)
Mary Catherine Gordon
1 11690?? Far Rockaway, NY
1949(12/08)
Nora Roberts
1 20907? Silver Spring, MD
1950(10/10)
Wendy Wasserstein
1 10001? Brooklyn, NY
1950(10/18) - 2006(01/30)
Janis Eddy Fink
1 10001? New York, NY
1951(04/07)
Laura Esquivel
52 ? Mexico City, MX
1951(09/30)
Terry McMillan
1 48061? Port Huron, MI
1951(10/18)
Paula Vogel
1 20090? Washington, DC
1951(11/16)
Charlaine Harris Schulz
1 ? Tunica, MS
1951(11/25)
Diana J. Gabaldon
1 ? ?, AZ
1952(01/11)
Amy Tan
1 94617? Oakland, CA
1952(02/19)
Rita Frances Dove
1 44309? Akron, OH
1952(08/28)
Sandra Keith Boynton
1 ? Orange, NJ
1953(04/03)
Ahlam Mosteghanemi
216 ? Tunis, TN
1953(04/13)
Alice McDermott
1 10001? Brooklyn, NY
1953(06/27)
Karen Louise Erdrich
1 56345 Little Falls, MN
1954(07/06)
Sandra Cisneros
1 60607? Chicago, IL
1954(12/20)
Elizabeth Strout
1 ? Portland, ME
1956(01/06)
Patricia Carroll Daniels Cornwell
1 33101? Miami, FL
1956(06/09)
Helen Fielding
44 ? Morley, West Yorkshire, England, GB
1958(02/19)
Mari-Alice Randall
1 ? Detroit, MI
1959(05/04)
Suzanne Collins
1 ? Hartford, CT
1962(08/10)
Tracy Chevalier
1 20090? Washington, DC
1962(10/19)
Suzan-Lori Parks
1 40121 Fort Knox, KY
1963(05/10)
Francine Barron Mathews
1 13902? 607? Binghamton(BNGH), Broome County, NY
1963(05/23)
Alice Sebold
1 54409 Antigo, WI
1963(09/06)
Ann Patchett
1 90086? 213? Los Angeles(LSAN), CA
1963(12/02)
Donna Louise Tartt
1 38930? 662? Greenwood(GNWD), LeFlore County, MS
1963(12/23)
Miriam Toews
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1964(05/21)
Joanne Rowling Arantes Murray
44 BS37 1454 Yate, England, GB
1965(07/31)
Lucy Neal Dahl
44 OX 1865 Oxford, England, GB
1965(08/04)
Casandra Brené Brown
1 78265? 210? San Antonio(SNAN), Bexar County, TX
1965(11/18)
Sarah Waters
44W SA73 1646 Neyland, Wales, GB
1966(07/21)
Lisa McMann
1 49423? 616? Holland(HLLD), Ottawa County, MI
1968(02/27)
Claire Keegan
353 ? ? ?, WW, IE
1968
Lisa Jewell
44 ? 20 London, England, GB
1968(07/19)
Edwidge Danticat
509 ? ? Port-au-Prince, HT
1969(01/19)
Susan Choi
1 46624? 574? South Bend(SBND), Saint Joseph County, IN
1969
Catherine Chidgey
64 0600 9 Auckland, AUK, NZ
1970(04/08)
Louise Dean
44 TN17 1580 Cranbrook, England, GB
1970(06)
Madeleine Sophie Townley Wickham
44 SW18 20 Wandsworth, London, England, GB
1970(12/12)
Karin Slaughter
1 30014? 770? Covington(CVTN), Newton County, GA
1971(01/06)
Nicola Monaghan
44 NG 115 Nottingham, England, GB
1971(03/08)
Samantha Hunt
1 10576 914? Pound Ridge, Westchester County, NY
1971(05/15)
Kiran Desai
91 11 11 New Delhi, DL, IN
1971(09/03)
Maggie O'Farrell
44N BT51 28 Coleraine, Northern Ireland, GB
1972(05/27)
Diana Omo Evans
44 NW2 20 Neasden, London, England, GB
1972
Yiyun Li
86 100000 10 Beijing, BJ, CN
1972(11/04)
Chloe Aridjis
1 10001? 212?,718? New York, NY
1971(11)
Nora K. Jemisin
1 52240? 319? Iowa City(IWCY), Johnson County, IA
1972(09/18)
Zuwena Packer
1 60607? 312?,773? Chicago(CHCG), Cook County, IL
1973(01/12)
Chloe Melisande Hooper
61 ? Melbourne, Victoria, AU
1973(10/26)
Stephanie Jane Merritt
44 ? ? ?, Surrey, England, GB
1974
Zoë Strachan
44S KA 1563 Kilmarnock, Scotland, GB
1975
Carolina de Robertis
44 ? ? ?, England, GB
1975
Sadie Smith
44 ? Brent, London, England, GB
1975(10/25)
1 94704? 510? Berkeley(BKLY), Alameda County, CA
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1977(04/01)
Gabrielle Zevin
1 10001? 212?,718? New York, NY
1977(10/24)
Emma Jane Unsworth
44 BL0 161 Bury, England, GB
1978
Irenosen Iseghohi Okojie
234 ? ? ?, NG
1978(01/01)
Stephanie Land
1 99501? 907? Anchorage(ANCR), AK
1978(09)
Emily St. John Mandel
1C V9J? 250? Merville, BC
1979
Halima Bashir
249 ? ? D?, SD
1979
Elaine Feeney
353 H65 ? Athenry, G, IE
1979(07/10)
Celeste_Ng
1 15233? 412? Pittsburgh(PITB), Allegheny County, PA
1980(07/30)
Rachel Grace Held Evans
1 35201? 205? Birmingham(BRHM), Jefferson County, AL
1981(06/08) - 2019(05/04)
Nadiifa Maxamed
252 ? ? Hargeisa, SO
1981
Grace McCleen
44W ? ? ?, Wales, GB
1981
Imbolo Mbue
237 ? ? Limbé, CM
1981
Elizabeth Zandile Tshele
263 ? ? ?, ZW
1981(10/12)
Jenn Ashworth
44 PR 1772 Preston, England, GB
1982
Amelia Gray
1 85726? 520? Tucson(TCSN), Pima County, AZ
1982(08/17)
Jill Nicole Filipovic
1 98101? 206? Seattle(STTL), King County, WA
1983(08/03)
Eleanor Catton
1C N5V? 519? London(LOND), ON
1985(09/24)
Cornelia Travnicek
43 3100 2742 Sankt Pölten, AT
1987(01/22)
Jessica Ashley
1 37072? 615? Goodlettsville(GDVL), Davidson County, TN
1987(01/29)
Alexandra Bracken
1 85034? 602? Phoenix(PHNX), Maricopa County, AZ
1987(02/27)
Shani Boianjiu
972 ? ? Jerusalem, JM, IL
1987(05/30)
Caroline Randall Williams
1 37202? 615? Nashville(NSVL), Davidson County, TN
1987(08/24)
Olivia Vieweg
49 07743? 03641 Jena, TH, DE
1987(10/03)
Irina Aleksandrovna Astakhova
7 101000 495 Moscow, MOW, RU
1987(11/28)
Helen Calcutt
44 ? ?, Midlands, England, GB
1988(03/27)
Charlie Nicholes Holmberg
1 84101? 801? Salt Lake City(SLKC), UT
1988(04/04)
Sarah Kay
1 10001? 212?,718? New York, NY
1988(06/19)
Catherine Merri Pavlich
1 85034? 602? Phoenix(PHNX), Maricopa County, AZ
1988(07/10)
Flavia Bujor
40 ? ? ?, RO
1988(08/08)
Veronica Anne Roth
1 10001? 212?,718? New York, NY
1988(08/19)
Samar Samir Mezghanni
216 ? ? ?, TN
1988(08/27)
Silvia Núñez del Arco Vidal
51 15000 1 Lima, PE
1988(11/08)
Natasha Pulley
44 ? ? ?, England, GB
1988(12/04)
Leandra Medine Cohen
1 10001? 212? Manhattan(NYCM), NY
1988(12/22)
Fatima Farheen Mirza
1 ? ? ?, CA
1991(04/10)
Imachibundu Oluwadara Onuzo
234 100 01 Lagos, LA, NG
1991
Rupi Kaur
91 1? 1? ?, PB, IN
1992(10/04)
Hortense Calisher1 10001? 212?,718? New York, NY1911(12/20) - 2009(01/13)
Mary McCarty1 98101? 206? Seattle(STTL), King County, WA1912(06/21) – 1989(10/25)
Mary Florence Elinor Rainbow Stewart44 ? Sunderland, County Durham, England, GB1916(09/17) - 2014(05/09)
Bridget Jean Collins Kerr1 18505? 570? Scranton(SCTN), Lackawanna County, PA1922(07/10) - 2003(01/20)
Paula Fox1 10001? 212?,718? New York, NY1923(04/22) - 2017(03/01)
Alison Lurie1 60607? 312?,773? Chicago(CHCG), Cook County, IL1926(09/03) – 2020(12/03)
Judith Tarcher Krantz1 10001? 212?,718? New York, NY1928(01/09) – 2019(06/22)
Cynthia Ozick1 10001? 212?,718? New York, NY1928(04/17)
Shirley Ann Grau1 70140? 504? New Orleans(NWOR), Orleans Parish, LA1929(07/08) – 2020(08/03)
Alice Ann Laidlaw Munro1CON ? Wingham, ON1931(07/10)
Barbara Taylor Bradford44 ? Leeds, England, GB1933(05/10)
Marge Piercy1 48231? 313? Detroit(DTRT), Wayne County, MI1936(03/31)
Bobbie Ann Mason1 42066 Mayfield, KY1940(05/01)
Anne Tyler1 55440? Minneapolis, MN1941(10/25)
Janet Anne Haradon Dailey1 50588 Storm Lake, IA1944(05/21) – 2013(12/14)
Rita Mae Brown1 17331? Hanover, PA1944(11/28)
Debbie Macomber1 98903? 509? Yakima(YAKM), WA1948(10/22)
Jamaica Kincaid1 ? 268 Saint John's, AG1949(05/25)
Susan Eloise Hinton1 74103? 918? Tulsa(TULS), Creek, Tulsa County, OK1950(07/22)
Alica Hoffman1 10001? New York, NY1952(03/16)
Barbara Kingsolver1 21401? Annapolis, MD1955(04/08)
Sarah Janet Maas1 10001? New York, NY1986(03/05)
Ruth Cardello1 ? Woonsocket, RI?
Elizabeth O'Connor(CT-X)


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