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...
Máirín Cregan
MÁIRÍN CREGAN was an Irish nationalist, children’s writer, playwright, and novelist. She is best known for her involvement in the Irish resistance and received a service medal for her work during...
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...
Margaret Bland
MARGARET BLAND was a playwright and poet. Born and raised in North Carolina, Bland began writing plays while an undergraduate at Agnes Scott College, and continued to study playwrighting at the...
Margaret Cavendish
MARGARET CAVENDISH DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE published poetry, plays, essays, and fiction, all under her own name at a time when most women writers wrote anonymously. The aristocrat addressed...
Margaret Kennedy
MARGARET KENNEDY was an English novelist and playwright. She began writing during her time at Cheltenham Ladies’ College and went on to study history at Somerville College, Oxford in 1915. She is...