Mary Wroth
LADY MARY WROTH was born into the famous literary Sidney family. She grew up performing in masques and entertainments, inside Queen Anne’s intimate circle of friends. She wrote sonnets, fiction,...
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...
Maureen Duffy
Maureen Duffy is a respected English playwright, poet, activist, fiction and non-fiction novelist who has received many awards for her writing throughout her career. Duffy endured a rough...
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...
Maya Angelou
MAYA ANGELOU was a civil rights activist and writer. In her early adulthood, she worked as a dancer and singer in night clubs, as an actor in Porgy and Bess, as a stage and film director, and...
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...
May Miller
MAY MILLER was an African-American poet, playwright and educator, who became the most widely published of the female writers of the Harlem Renaissance. At Howard University she studied drama and...