20th-century American women poets

American poet, author, and civil rights activist (1928–2014)

American poet and writer (1932–1963)

American author and activist (born 1944)

Albanian American actress and author

American author (1874–1946)

Patricia Lee Smith is an American singer, songwriter, poet, painter, author, and photographer. Her 1975 debut album Horses made her an influential member of the New York City–based punk rock movement. Smith has fused rock and poetry in her work. In 1978, her most widely known song, "Because the Night," co-written with Bruce Springsteen, reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and number five on the UK Singles Chart.

American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist (1893-1967)

American writer (1873–1947)

American author and activist (1952–2021)

American novelist, poet, memoirist, critic

American writer and feminist activist (1934–1992)

American author (born 1938)

American poet (1892–1950)

American poet (1911–1979)

American feminist, writer, artist, and lecturer (1860–1935)

American poet, essayist and feminist (1929–2012)

American writer who hosted a literary salon at her home in Paris (1876-1972)

American poet (1928–1974)

American Modernist writer, poet and artist (1892-1982)

American poet (1887–1972)

Hilda Doolittle (September 10, 1886 – September 27, 1961) was an American modernist poet, novelist, and memoirist who wrote under the name H.D. throughout her life. Her career began in 1911 after she moved to London and co-founded the avant-garde Imagist group of poets with American expatriate poet and critic Ezra Pound. During this early period, her minimalist free verse poems depicting Classical motifs drew international attention. Eventually distancing herself from the Imagist movement, she experimented with a wider variety of forms, including fiction, memoir, and verse drama. Reflecti

American writer (1917–2000)

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American writer and poet (1884–1933)

American writer (1918–2007)

American anarchist writer and feminist

American poet (1935–2019)

American novelist, playwright, essayist, and poet (1947–1997)

writer from the United States

American tennis player (1905–1998)

American feminist writer

American psychoanalyst and writer

American abolitionist, social activist, and poet

American novelist, essayist, poet

American writer, poet, novelist, critic (1949–2024)

American/Canadian author

British-American poet (1923-1997)

Chicana cultural theory, feminist theory, and queer theory (1942-2004)

American poet (1934-2020)

American singer-songwriter

Novelist, short story writer (1873–1945)

American poet and author

Dominican-American poet, novelist, essayist (born 1950)

American poet, writer and activist

American novelist, short story writer and poet (1849–1909)

American writer and activist (1922–2007)

American artist (1848-1933)

American singer, author and actress

American author (1873–1958)

American writer, activist (1875-1935)

American actress (1920–2000)

American writer (born 1945)

American poet, playwright, and novelist (1893-1968)

Puerto Rican writer

American writer, activist, lawyer and Episcopal priest (1910-1985)

American novelist and poet (born 1936)

poet, scholar, and writer (1951-2018)

American poet and songwriter (1859-1929)

American poet and author (1925-2014)

Latvian poet (1926-2015)