Yang Jiang
YANG JIANG (杨绛) was a Beijing-born playwright and author. She attended Soochow University, Tsinghua University, where she met her husband, fellow scholar QIAN ZHONGSHU, and then studied at Oxford...
Zinaida Gippius
ZINAIDA NIKOLAYEVNA GIPPIUS (Зинаи́да Никола́евна Ги́ппиус) was a Russian poet, playwright, novelist, editor and religious thinker, one of the major figures in Russian symbolism. Gippius started...
Zoe Akins
ZOE ATKINSA was an American playwright, poet, and author. She won the 1935 Pulitzer Prize for drama for THE OLD MAID. Akins wrote her first play in junior college, a parody of a Greek tragedy....
Zofka Kveder
ZOFKA KVEDER was a playwright, translator, and journalist. Kveder is regarded as one of the first Slovenian women writers and feminists. She was known to be supportive and encouraging to young,...
Zona Gale
ZONA GALE was a novelist, short story writer, playwright and prominent Suffragist. She began writing short stories at a young age, and her first publication was at the age of sixteen. In 1896 she...
Zora Neale Hurston
ZORA NEALE HURSTON was the “Queen of the Harlem Renaissance.” A folklorist, anthropologist, playwright and filmmaker, she portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South. The most...
Zulu Sofola
ZULU SOFOLA was the first published female Nigerian playwright. After receiving her MA in Drama in 1965 from the Catholic University of America, she returned to Nigeria and became Africa’s first...
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