Muktabai Dixit
MUKTABAI DIXIT was a Marathi playwright and author from India. The Marathi people are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group native to Maharashtra. Marathi theatre began in the mid 19th century,...
Muriel Box
Muriel Box was a prolific director, screenwriter, and author who achieved great respect, despite working in the male-dominated 1950s British film industry. Her parents enrolled her into a...
Najwa Kawar Farah
NAJWA KAWAR FARAH was a playwright and theatre director. Born in Nazareth, she attended the Teachers’ Academy in Jerusalem and returned to her hometown to teach, but from the 1950s onwards Farah...
Nancy Cárdenas
NANCY CÁRDENAS received her PhD in Mexico and studied film and theatre at Yale University. At twenty, she became a radio announcer and stage actress, before transitioning into writing journal...
Nancy Hamilton
NANCY HAMILTON was an American actor, playwright, lyricist, director, and producer. After a period of amateur acting and producing in Pittsburgh and New Jersey, she moved to New York City in 1932...
Natalia Ginzburg
NATALIA GINZBURG was born in Sicily to a family of intellectuals, leading her to publish her first story at only seventeen years old. Born to a Jewish father, Ginzburg published her first novel...
Natalie Clifford Barney
NATALIE CLIFFORD BARNEY was born in Ohio but lived as an expat in Paris. There, Barney formed serious intimate relationships with writers, scholars, intellectuals, and, as a lesbian aware of her...
Nathalie Sarraute
NATHALIE SARRAUTE was a playwright, novelist, and lawyer of Jewish descent. A daughter to divorced parents, Sarraute lived between France and Russia during her childhood. Eventually, she moved to...