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Male Writers born 1849 and earlier
Male Writers born 1930 and later
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)
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| Paula Vogel1 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)
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| 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 | p 1964(05/21)
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| 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
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| 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 | p 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
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| 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)
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| 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
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| 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 Calisher | 1 10001? 212?,718? New York, NY | 1911(12/20) - 2009(01/13)
Mary McCarty | 1 98101? 206? Seattle(STTL), King County, WA | 1912(06/21) – 1989(10/25)
| Mary Florence Elinor Rainbow Stewart | 44 ? Sunderland, County Durham, England, GB | 1916(09/17) - 2014(05/09)
| Bridget Jean Collins Kerr | 1 18505? 570? Scranton(SCTN), Lackawanna County, PA | 1922(07/10) - 2003(01/20)
| Paula Fox | 1 10001? 212?,718? New York, NY | 1923(04/22) - 2017(03/01)
| Alison Lurie | 1 60607? 312?,773? Chicago(CHCG), Cook County, IL | 1926(09/03) – 2020(12/03)
| Judith Tarcher Krantz | 1 10001? 212?,718? New York, NY | 1928(01/09) – 2019(06/22)
| Cynthia Ozick | 1 10001? 212?,718? New York, NY | 1928(04/17)
| Shirley Ann Grau | 1 70140? 504? New Orleans(NWOR), Orleans Parish, LA | 1929(07/08) – 2020(08/03)
| Alice Ann Laidlaw Munro | 1CON ? Wingham, ON | 1931(07/10)
| Barbara Taylor Bradford | 44 ? Leeds, England, GB | 1933(05/10)
| Marge Piercy | 1 48231? 313? Detroit(DTRT), Wayne County, MI | 1936(03/31)
| Bobbie Ann Mason | 1 42066 Mayfield, KY | 1940(05/01)
| Anne Tyler | 1 55440? Minneapolis, MN | 1941(10/25)
| Janet Anne Haradon Dailey | 1 50588 Storm Lake, IA | 1944(05/21) – 2013(12/14)
| Rita Mae Brown | 1 17331? Hanover, PA | 1944(11/28)
| Debbie Macomber | 1 98903? 509? Yakima(YAKM), WA | 1948(10/22)
| Jamaica Kincaid | 1 ? 268 Saint John's, AG | 1949(05/25)
| Susan Eloise Hinton | 1 74103? 918? Tulsa(TULS), Creek, Tulsa County, OK | 1950(07/22)
| Alica Hoffman | 1 10001? New York, NY | 1952(03/16)
| Barbara Kingsolver | 1 21401? Annapolis, MD | 1955(04/08)
| Sarah Janet Maas | 1 10001? New York, NY | 1986(03/05)
| Ruth Cardello | 1 ? Woonsocket, RI | ?
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