Lúcia Benedetti
LÚCIA BENEDETTI was a Brazilian storyteller, writer of Children's Literature, novelist, playwright, chronicler and translator who began writing as a college student. She met her journalist husband...
Madeleine Lucette Ryley
MADELEINE LUCETTE RYLEY was an English actor, director, playwright, and librettist. Ryley began as an actor and toured operas and plays throughout England and the US. Much of her early writing was...
Madeleine-Angélique de Gomez
MADELEINE-ANGÉLIQUE DE GOMEZ was a Parisian playwright and poet. The daughter of an actor, she married a Spanish nobleman, anticipating a life of financial security, but in fact discovered that...
Mae West
MAE WEST was an American actress, singer, playwright, screenwriter and pioneering "sex symbol" whose genius with a double entendre made her a legend. West started performing in vaudeville at the...
Magda Donato
MAGDA DONATO, born Carmen Eva Nelken Mansberger, was a playwright, journalist, and actress. In 1917 Donato began writing for the newspaper El Imparcial, starting with fashion but quickly moving...
Mairead Ni Ghrada
MAIREAD NI GHRADA was a poet, playwright, and broadcaster. From a young age, she was enamored by the Irish language—many of her works touched on this love and were originally in Irish. Ghrada...
Marcelle Maurette
MARCELLE MAURETTE was a screenwriter and playwright, who began writing fiction, poems, and journal articles as a teenager. Playwriting became her focus in 1937. She chose to write about...
Margaret Ayer Barnes
MARGARET AYER BARNES was a playwright and novelist. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College she was offered the post of alumnae director in 1920 which she held for three years. In 1926 Barnes broke her...