Abbess Hildegard of Bingen
ABBESS HILDEGARD OF BINGEN was a Benedictine abbess, artist, author, composer, mystic, pharmacist, poet, preacher, and theologian. She is also considered to be the founder of scientific natural...
Ada Lee Bascom Marsden
ADA LEE BASCOM MARSDEN began her artistic career as an actress but later became an acclaimed novelist, playwright and short story writer. She wrote under the pen name of Ada Lee Bascom (her...
Adalet Agaoglu
ADALET AǦAOǦLU was a novelist, essayist, memoirist, short story writer, and playwright. She was hugely influential in 20th century Turkey for her human rights activism and literature that featured...
Adèle Daminois
ADÈLE DAMINOIS was a playwright, novelist, and lecturer originally from northern France. Her father was an advisor to King Louis XVI, giving her a childhood among the French elite. She was known...
Adelina Lopes Vieira
ADELINA LOPES VIEIRA was a playwright, poet, translator, and children’s author originally from Lisbon, Portugal. Her family moved to Brazil when she was an infant. She became a primary school...
Adrienne Kennedy
ADRIENNE KENNEDY is a playwright, poet, and essayist. As a child in Cleveland, Ohio, she spent most of her time reading novels and became interested in playwriting during high school. She attended...
Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie is the acclaimed author of mysteries and crime novels. However, Christie also achieved success a playwright. In fact, her play The Mousetrap was the longest continuously running...
Aimée Daniell Beringer
AIMÉE DANIELL BERINGER was American-born but relocated to London with her English parents when she was fifteen. Married to a composer, and mother of five, a magazine article called Beringer “one...