Alice Erya Gerstenberg
ALICE ERYA GERSTENBERG was best known for her experimental, feminist drama and her involvement with the Little Theatre Movement in Chicago. She enjoyed an upper middle class childhood in Chicago...
Alice Henson Ernst
ALICE HENSON ERNST was an American playwright, professor, poet, Native American researcher and scholar who was considered a leading authority on Northwest theatre history. Ernst wrote her first...
Alice L. Rostetter
ALICE L. ROSTETTER was a high school English teacher best known for children’s plays. The Widow’s Veil, which opened at the Provincetown Players on January 17, 1919, appears to be the only script...
Alicia Sheridan LeFanu
ALICIA SHERIDAN LEFANU was an Anglo-Irish writer, born into a prominent theatre family who supported women’s education and writing. She was the daughter of actor Thomas Sheridan and playwright...
Altaír Tejeda de Tamez
ALTAÍR TEJEDA DE TAMEZ was a short story writer, poet, journalist, and playwright. She earned her master’s degree in Spanish Language and Literature from the National Autonomous University of...
Ama Ata Aidoo
AMA ATA AIDOO née CHRISTINA AMA AIDOO was a playwright, poet, novelist, and short story writer, born into a time of British neocolonialism in Ghana. This inspired her father to educate local youth...
Amalia González Caballero de Castillo Ledón
AMALIA GONZÁLEZ CABALLERO DE CASTILLO LEDÓN was a diplomat, writer, and the first female member of a Presidential cabinet. Ledón excelled academically, receiving teaching credentials as well as a...
Amelia Pincherle Rosselli
AMELIA PINCHERLE ROSSELLI was a writer and playwright born in Venice, Italy, to a wealthy family of non-practicing Jews. In 1892, she married Giuseppe Emanuele “Joe” Rosselli, with whom she had...