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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
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
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
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

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
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
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
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
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

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
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
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
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
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

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
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

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