María Luisa Ocampo Heredia
MARÍA LUISA OCAMPO HEREDIA was a playwright and translator. Her passion for theatre was shared by her sister, who was an actress. Heredia was a feminist who fought for women’s suffrage in Mexico....
María Martínez Sierra
MARÍA DE LA O LEJÁRRAGA GARCÍA, known by her married name, MARÍA MARTÍNEZ SIERRA, was a Spanish playwright, writer, feminist, translator, and politician. Shea was one of the first women in Spain...
María Teresa León
MARÍA TERESA LEÓN was a writer, activist, and cultural ambassador. She came from a wealthy family, but moved around Spain frequently because of her father’s job in the Spanish army. She found...
María de Zayas
MARÍA DE ZAYAS, a member of Madrid’s aristocracy, was a writer during Spain's Golden Age of Literature and considered by a number of modern critics to be one of the pioneers of literary feminism....
Matilde Elena López
MATILDE ELENA LÓPEZ was a Salvadoran playwright, poet, literary critic, and activist. López was a member of the League of Anti-Fascist Writers in the 1940s and participated in the leftist movement...
Maude Fulton
MAUDE FULTON was an American playwright, actress, stage director, theatre manager, and Hollywood screenwriter. She grew up in Lexington, Missouri, working as a telegraph operator, short story...
Maurine Dallas Watkins
MAURINE DALLAS WATKINS wrote her first play "The Heart of Gold" when she was fifteen and cofounded The High School Billiken, Crawfordsville High School's first newspaper, that same year. She...
May Holt
MAY HOLT was an English actor and playwright. Born to actor-manager Clark Holt, she made her acting debut as a child in the melodrama Children of the Castle, which toured throughout England, New...