Louisa May Alcott	Claribel Alegria	Paula Gunn Allen	Maya Angelou
Jeanette Armstrong	Margaret Atwood	Jane Austen	Toni Cade Bambara
Gwendolyn Bennett	Elizabeth Bishop	Louise Bogan	Gwendolyn Brooks
Pearl S. Buck	Ivy Compton Burnett	Bebe Moore Campbell	Rachel Carson
Willa Cather	Kate Chopin	Agatha Christie	Lucille Clifton
Ina Coolbrith	J. California Cooper	Isak Denison	Anita Desai
Emily Dickinson	Rita Dove	Jessie Redmon Fauset	Edna Ferber
Nikki Giovanni	Louise Glück	Jorie Graham	Angelina Grimke
Virginia Hamilton	Lorraine Hansberry	Zora Neale Hurston	Shirley Jackson
Honoree Jeffers	Gish  Jen	Sarah Orne Jewett	Angela Johnson
Gwyneth Jones	June Jordan	Jamaica Kincaid	Maxine Hong Kingston
Carolyn Kizer	Maxine Kumin	Letitia Landon	Nella Larson
Emma Lazarus	Harper Lee	Shirley Lim	Amy Lowell
Patricia McKissack	Terry McMillan	Margaret Mead	Edna St. Vincent Millay
Marianne  Moore	Pat Mora	Toni Morrison	Lisel Mueller
Bharati Mukherjee	Gloria Naylor	Marilyn Nelson	Naomi Shihab Nye
Flannery O'Connor	Terry O'Neal	Dorothy Parker	Ann Petry
Sylvia Plath	Beatrix Potter	Christina Rossetti	Anne Sexton
Mary Shelley	Bapsi Sidhwa	Leslie Marmon Silko	Gertrude Stein
Harriet Beecher Stowe	Amy Tan	Ida Tarbell	Sara Teasdale
Sherri S. Tepper	Mona Van Duyn	Reetika  Vazirani	Alice Walker
Eudora Welty	Edith Wharton	Phillis Wheatley	Laura Ingalls Wilder
Sarah Winnemucca	Virginia Woolf	American women Writers