Isabel Allende is a Chilean-American writer.Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the magic realist tradition, is famous for novels such...
Playwright Alice Childress photographed with the stars of her interracial love story "Wedding Band", Ruby Dee and James Broderick, in August 1972.
Sculptural bust of the Greek lyric poetess Sappho; marble, 7th century BC from the Archaeological Museum, Istanbul, Turkey. This is a Roman copy of a...
Gertrude Stein, one of the world's foremost novelists, poses with Alice B Toklas, and her dog, Basket, in front of her home in France. The grand lady...
Pulitzer Prize winning author Shirley Ann Grau was recognized for her work The Keepers of the House in 1965.
San Francisco: One of science fiction's leading authors, Ursula K. LeGuin has been writing for years while raising a family in Portland, Oregon, and...
American poet Adrienne Rich gestures and smiles while sitting in an office at W. W. Norton Publishers, 500 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
English born author, actress, educator Susanna Rowson Nee Haswell. Daughter of Royal Navy officer, raised in Massachusetts 1768-78. A governess in...
Portrait of American author Edith Wharton sitting with one arm propped on the back of a sofa, wearing a long necklace.
Playwright Lorraine Hansberry , the first African-American female author to have a play performed on Broadway, in her Greenwich Village Apartment,...
'Mother Julian', 1912. Julian of Norwich was an English anchoress and an important Christian mystic and theologian. From The Mighty Army, by W. M....
Science Fiction Writer Ursula K. Le Guin poses for portrait in her house on July 5, 2001 in Portland, Oregon.
Canadian author Margaret Atwood poses while in Paris,France to promote her book on the 16th of November 1994.
English writer and novelist Agatha Christie seated at a desk with a typewriter and two stacked towers of hardback books in a library room at her...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie appears to speak during Times Talks at Florence Gould Hall on May 4, 2017 in New York City.
French author Simon de Beauvoir in her Parisian apartment. Simone de Beauvoir is renowned for her book "The Second Sex."
Austrian Authoress Ingeborg Bachmann. Photography. 1972. [Ingeborg Bachmann, oesterr. Schriftstellerin bei der Verleihung des Wildganspreises. 1972]
George Sand , French writer, feminist. Around 1865. Carte-de-visite-Photography by Felix Gaspard Nadar, Paris. [George Sand , franzoesische...
Circa 1834. Oil on canvas, 35 1/2 x 29 3/8 inches. Located in the National Portrait Gallery, London, England, UK. Recently restored.
Gandhi walks with Sarojini Naidu from the station at Boulogne to the quay where he embarked on the channel steamer for Folkestone.
Photo of poet Sara Teasdale, winner of the Poetry Society Prize, the first prize for poetry in America. Photo shows Teasdale seated and holdiing a...
Italian author Natalia Ginzburg, whose work explores family relationships, politics during and after the Fascist years and World War II, and...
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