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Zora Neale Hurston

Known to refer to herself on occasion as "Zora, Queen of the Niggerati," Zora Neale Hurston cut a pro
Tags: African american fiction, Feminist, Political, Southern gothic, Spiritual, Tribal, Women's literature
Angela Carter

Fairy tales, Gothic fiction, a baroque sensibility, feminism, gender bending, and science fiction: fr
Tags: Fantastic, Fantasy, Feminist, Lyrical, Mythic, Postmodern fiction, Women's literature
Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein may challenge Jacqueline Susann as the biggest self-promoter of twentieth-century l
Tags: Ebullient, Fleeting, Modernist literature, Quirky, Smart, The lost generation, Witty, Women's literature
Guerrilla Girls

The New York-based Guerrilla Girls (self-styled "conscience of the art world") use humor, renegade ta
Tags: Angry, Bad girl art, Enigmatic, Feminist, In-your-face, Media art, Political, Rebel, Women's literature
Cindy Sherman

According to photographer Cindy Sherman, "The male half of society has structured the whole language
Tags: Cartoonish, Composed, Conceptual photography, Death, Deconstructive, Feminine, Grotesque, In-your-face, Layered, Mythic, Political, Women's literature

Virginia Woolf

Both as a novelist and as an essayist, Virginia Woolf was a pioneer of what Marguerite Duras would la
Tags: Bloomsbury, Feminine, Feminism, Intimate, Modernist literature, Queer literature, Quirky, Sprawling, Women's literature
Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath, one of the best-known names in American women's literature, signed her first and her la
Tags: Confessional poetry, Death, Feminine, Grotesque, Melancholy, Primal, Voluminous, Women's literature
Emily Dickinson

The nineteenth century was a literary age characterized by Realism in prose and Romanticism in poetry
Tags: Composed, Contemplative, Implosive, Intimate, Minimal, Romantic poetry, Women's literature
Margaret Drabble

Lonely pregnancies, jealous sisters, fears of physicality, and loss of identity are Margaret Drabble'
Tags: Clean, Composed, Eclectic, Post-war literature, Witty, Women's literature
Simone de Beauvoir

French critic and novelist Simone de Beauvoir reinvented the feminist debate with her shocking text,
Tags: Existentialist literature, Existentialist theory, Feminism, Feminist, Pioneering, Smart, Social revolution, Women's literature

Bharati Mukherjee

Violent and timely, contemporary and historical, true and fantastical, Bharati Mukherjee's work has b
Tags: Eclectic, Intense, Pioneering, Political, Post-colonial literature, Women's literature
bell hooks

As a teacher, writer, and cultural critic, bell hooks consistently pinpoints the nastiest dust balls
Tags: African american fiction, Deconstructive, Feminism, Feminist, In-your-face, Political, Women's literature
Anne Sexton

American poet Anne Sexton could tell a story that would elicit tears. And yet, her words hold the rin
Tags: Anxiety, Confessional poetry, Dark, Death, Feminine, Melancholy, Moody, Visceral, Women's literature
Ding Ling

As an inquisitive woman with a critical eye, and as a member of the Chinese Communist Party who portr
Tags: Clever, Feminist, Pioneering, Political, Rebel, Women's literature
Jung Chang

"I have made London my home. For ten years, I avoided thinking about the China I had left behind. The
Tags: Intense, Political, Sincere, Spare, Women's literature

Joni Mitchell

Whether the pond she's skating across is folk, pop-rock, or jazz, Joni Mitchell attacks song with an
Tags: Dreamy, Elegant, Feminine, Intimate, Religious, Sincere, Women's literature
Clarice Lispector

For most of the twentieth century, even as Latin American writers began to achieve world renown for t
Tags: Deconstructive, Event, Experimental, Feminine, Moody, Postmodern fiction, Repetition, Spare, Sublime, Women's literature
Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison, arguably the most famous living African American author, was born Chloe Anthony Woffor
Tags: African american fiction, Dense, Feminine, Layered, Melancholy, Pathos, Religious, Southern gothic, Spectral, Women's literature
Maxine Hong Kingston

Stockton, California, is generally known for producing seed hybrids, not literary ones. But that all
Tags: Bright, Eclectic, Lyrical, Overflowing, Sensual, Women's literature
Lil Malinich

Tags: Bright, Candy, Classic hollywood, Dark, Eclectic, Ethereal, Organic, Sensual, Serene, Spiritual, Surrealist theater, Visceral, Women's literature

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