DELARIVIER MANLEY traveled extensively around England from 1964 to 1966, following an unknown childhood. It was during this time that she wrote her first play, a comedy called The Lost Lover, or,...
DELIA BACON was an American Shakespeare scholar, short story writer, and playwright. While her formal education ended at fourteen, she published her first book, Tales of the Puritans, anonymously...
DIANA MORGAN was a Welsh playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. She studied at the Central School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art in London. In 1931, she debuted on the London stage in Noёl...
DIDO SOTIRIOU was a Greek journalist, novelist, and playwright. She was born in Aydın, a part of the Ottoman Empire, in 1909, but Sotiriou’s family moved to Smyrna, Greece, in 1919. They were...
DJUNA BARNES was an American novelist, poet, playwright, journalist, and visual artist, as well as an important figure in the Modernist movement. Deeply influenced by the French symbolists and the...
DOROTHY GLADYS “DODIE” SMITH was an English novelist and playwright. Smith entered the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in 1914, and briefly acted professionally until she decided to pursue...
DOLORS MONCSERD, née DOLORS MONCERDÀ I VIDAL was a Spanish writer, poet, storyteller, playwright, essayist, and columnist of Catalan descent. Her childhood was spent in an influential cultural...
DORA WILCOX was a poet and playwright. Born in New Zealand, her work was being published in periodicals by the time she was 12. She moved to Australia at 18 and three years later relocated to...