Aimée Stuart
AIMÉE STUART was a Scottish writer and playwright. In 1918, Stuart published her first work, An Airman’s Wife: A True Story of Lovers Separated by War about her marriage to William A. Bond, a...
Akimoto Matsuyo
AKIMOTO MATSUYO (秋元松代) was one of the leading playwrights of post-war Japan, known for her Shingeki plays, classical puppet Bunraku, and Kabuki dramas. At age 34, she became a student at the...
Alberte-Barbe D'ernécourt, Dame de Saint-Baslemont
ALBERTE-BARBE D'ERNÉCOURT, DAME DE SAINT-BASLEMONT (1607-1660) was a writer and soldier. When the Thirty Years’ War wreaked havoc upon her family of wealthy leather traders and their territory,...
Alexandra Brushtein
ALEXANDRA BRUSHTEIN was a Russian and Soviet writer, playwright and memoirist. She was active during the Revolutionary movement and then participated in Likbez, the Soviet effort to eradicate...
Alfhild Agrell
ALFHILD AGRELL was a Swedish writer and playwright. Much of her work dealt with the sexual inequalities within Nordic society and she was a prominent voice in the Sedlighetsbatten, the Nordic...
Alfonsina Storni
ALFONSINA STORNI was a Modernist poet, essayist and playwright. Born in Switzerland to an Italian-Swiss family, her father’s business ventures precipitated Storni’s famiily’s move to Argentina....
Alice Brown
ALICE BROWN was an American poet, novelist, and playwright. She grew up in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, and graduated from Robinson Female Seminary in 1876. She worked as a school teacher for...
Alice Chapin
ALICE CHAPIN was an American actor, playwright, and suffragette in England. After spending time as an amateur actor and student under David Belasco in NYC, Chapin divorced her husband and used her...