June Jordan (1936-2002) was a poet, essayist, journalist, dramatist, activist, and educator.
Read MoreAnn Jones is a scholar, journalist, photographer, and the author of nonfiction books.
Read MoreJosephine W. Johnson (1910 - 1990) was the author of eleven books of fiction, poetry, and essays. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1935 at age 24 for her first novel, Now in November.
Read MoreTao Jie is a professor of English and deputy director of the Women's Studies Center at Peking University. Her publications include translations of the works by William Faulkner, Robert Penn Warren, and Alice Walker into Chinese.
Read MoreKeala Jane Jewell is an associate professor of Italian at Dartmouth College.
Read MoreDiane Peacock Jezic (1942-1989), pianist and musicologist, taught music literature at Towson State University.
Read MoreJoan Jensen is an American historian, and professor emerita of New Mexico State University.
Read MoreElizabeth Janeway, novelist and social critic, is the author of four other novels and several volumes of critical prose.
Read MoreHenry James Born (1843-1916) remains a preeminent author and literary critic. He is best known for novels such as The Portrait of a Lady, The Golden Bowl, and The Wings of the Dove.
Read MoreStanlie M. James is Director of the African and African American Studies Program at Arizona State University, where she holds a joint appointment with the women's and gender studies program. A recipient of a Ford Foundation grant and the Susan Koppelman Award, James earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. in international studies at the University of Denver.
Read MoreAletta Jacobs published articles, travelogues, and translations of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Women and Economics and Olive Schreiner's Women and Labor.
Read MoreShiori Ito is a freelance journalist and filmmaker.
Read MoreAyako Ishigaki was a pioneering Japanese American feminist and social activist. Her remarkable career included work as a transnational feminist, journalist, biographer, television personality, and activist.
Read MoreHadley Irwin is the pen name of Lee Hadley and Annabelle Irwin, both native Iowans, who taught English at Iowa State University, Ames. Together they wrote over a dozen young adult novels.
Read MoreZora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) was a novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist whose fictional and factual accounts of black heritage remain unparalleled. Her many books include Dust Tracks on a Road; Their Eyes Were Watching God; Jonah's Gourd Vine; Moses, Man of the Mountain; Mules and Men; and Every Tongue Got to Confess.
Read MoreFannie Hurst (1889-1968) was born in Ohio, grew up in St. Louis, and spent her adult life in New York City. She is the author of seventeen novels and more than 250 short stories, as well as plays, screenplays, memoirs, essays, and articles. Her best-remembered works are those turned into films, including Imitation of Life, Back Street, Humoresque, The Younger Generation, and Young at Heart. She was also active in a variety of progressive Jewish, social justice, labor, peace, and women's organizations.
Read MoreAnton Hur has won the PEN Translates and PEN/Heim grants for literary translation
Read MoreMeghan Huppuch is the director of community organizing at Girls for Gender Equity.
Read MoreHelen LaKelly Hunt is a feminist philanthropist, activist, and scholar.
Read MoreHelen R. Hull (1888-1971) published seventeen novels and sixty-five short stories, and taught creative writing at Columbia University.
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