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...
Megan Terry
Marguerite Duffy, known professionally as Megan Terry, was an American playwright, screenwriter, and activist. Initially, she studied directing, design, acting, psychology, and sociology at the...
Mercedes de Acosta
MERCEDES DE ACOSTA was an author, playwright, and poet. Acosta is remembered more for her romantic relations with Hollywood and Broadway stars, such as Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich, than for...
Mercedes Rein
MERCEDES REIN was a writer, German-to-Spanish translator, and dramatist, as well as a professor of literature. In 1956 she became a contributor of literary and theatrical criticism to the...
Mercy Otis Warren
MERCY OTIS WARREN was a Massachusetts native, daughter of an outspoken critic of British rule and the wife of a prominent American politician and revolutionary. Warren was personally acquainted...
Michael Strange
MICHAEL STRANGE, aka BLANCHE MARIE LOUISE OELRICHS, was a poet, playwright, and actress who first used the masculine nom de plume Michael Strange to publish her poetry in order to distance her...