Book author woman writer biography

Get to know the famous female authorswho left their mark on the literary landscape. From classics to contemporary masterpieces, discover their stories!

Famous female authors are central to breaking conventions.

By offering the female perspective, they reshaped the literary world to be more diverse and inclusive.

Did you know that there are more female writers in America?

Book author woman writer biography

It’s not a wide gap. But to make up 50.45% of the industry that did not recognize women authors until the 1840s — isn’t that a win?

This progress was not easy, but it brought us the best female authors we celebrate today. In her 1981 speech, renowned writer Toni Morrison said: “If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” And write women did — there is no literary genre that doesn’t have a female writer.

Read on to discover the brave women who broke literary barriers!

Check out the debut novels nominated for the 2023 Women’s Pr