Rachel Crothers
RACHEL CROTHERS was a playwright and director, considered by many to be the most successful and prolific woman dramatist in the early 20th Century. She attended drama school in Boston as an teen,...
Rachel de Queiroz
RACHEL DE QUEIROZ was a journalist, playwright, and United Nations representative. She started her career as a journalist before finding unexpected success with the publication of her first novel,...
Rachilde
RACHILDE wrote more than 20 plays which were produced throughout Europe, but her theatrical writing is largely unknown in comparison to her work as a novelist. At the height of her career, she...
Raffaella de' Sernigi
RAFFAELLA DE' SERNIGI was an Augustinian nun devoted to the Catholic Church, identified as authoring at least one 16th Century Mystery Play. Published sometime between the years 1550 and 1557, it...
Rajam Krishnan
RAJAM KRISHNAN was a playwright and author from Tamil Nadu, India. Despite having little formal education, Krishnan began writing as early as in her 20s. She was best known for turning her...
Rashid Jahan
RASHID JAHAN was a writer and gynecologist. Born in Uttar Pradesh, India to a father who promoted women's emancipation and education, she became a leading figure in Urdu literature. Jahan was a...
Regina M. Anderson
REGINA M. ANDERSON was a Chicago-born librarian and playwright who became a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Anderson hosted intellectual and literary salons in her Harlem apartment where...
Rita Creighton Smith
RITA CREIGHTON SMITH appears to have been born on October 6, 1877 in Thomaston, Maine, granddaughter to a prominent sea captain and ship builder. Little of her life before moving to New York is...