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Simone de Beauvoir
French philosopher, social theorist and activist (1908–1986)
Virginia Woolf
English modernist writer (1882–1941)
Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Tony Award and three Golden Globe Awards. Films in which she has appeared have grossed over $6.9 billion worldwide. She has been named Hollywood's highest-paid actress multiple times.
Drew Barrymore
American actress (born 1975)
Colette
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (; 28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954), known mononymously as Colette or as Colette Willy, was a French author and woman of letters. She was also a mime, actress, and journalist. Colette is best known in the English-speaking world for her 1944 novella Gigi, which was the basis for the 1958 film and the 1973 stage production of the same name. Her short story collection The Tendrils of the Vine is also famous in France.
Gore Vidal
American writer (1925–2012)
Robert Graves
English poet and novelist (1895-1985)
Anne Heche
Anne Celeste Heche was an American actress, known for her roles across a variety of genres in film, television, and theater. She was the recipient of Daytime Emmy, National Board of Review, and GLAAD Media Awards, in addition to nominations for a Tony Award and a Primetime Emmy.
Carson McCullers
American writer (1917–1967)
Kate Millett
American writer, educator, artist, and activist (1934–2017)
Alan Cumming
Alan Cumming is a Scottish actor, filmmaker and presenter. Known for his roles on stage and screen, he has received numerous accolades including a BAFTA Award, five Emmy Awards, and two Tony Awards. He also won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy Performance for the West End production of Accidental Death of an Anarchist (1991). His other Olivier-nominated roles are in The Conquest of the South Pole (1988), La Bête (1992), and Cabaret (1994). Cumming won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for reprising his role as the Emcee on Broadway in Cabaret (1998). His other performances on Broadway include Design for Living (2001), and Macbeth (2013).
H.D.
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
Paul François Jean Nicolas, vicomte de Barras
French politician (1755-1829)
Tony Richardson
English theatre and film director and producer (1928-1991)
Vita Sackville-West
English writer, poet, and gardener (1892–1962)
Paul Bowles
American composer and writer (1910–1999)
Stephen Spender
English poet and man of letters (1909–1995)
Lord Alfred Douglas
English poet and journalist (1870–1945)
Ram Dass
American spiritual teacher, author and psychologist
Roxane Gay
American writer
Anthony Rapp
American actor and singer
Carrie Brownstein
American musician and actress
Liane de Pougy
French courtesan, dancer and novelist, editor
Hortense Mancini
Mistress of Charles II of England
Xaviera Hollander
Dutch prostitute
Clive Davis
American music executive (born 1932)
Rachilde
Rachilde () was the pen name and preferred identity of novelist and playwright Marguerite Vallette-Eymery (11 February 1860 – 4 April 1953). Born near Périgueux, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France during the Second French Empire, Rachilde went on to become a Symbolist author and one of the most prominent women in literature associated with the Decadent movement of fin de siècle France.
Georgette Leblanc
French singer (1869–1941)
June Jordan
American poet, essayist, playwright, feminist, bisexual activist
Paris Lees
British journalist and activist for transgender rights
Piper Kerman
American felon and author
Mary MacLane
American writer (1881-1929)
Bif Naked
Canadian singer
John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey
English courtier, political writer and memoirist (1696-1743)
Eve Babitz
American author
Jann Arden
Canadian singer-songwriter
Katie Hill
American politician (born 1987)
Mabel Dodge Luhan
American patron of the arts (1879-1962)
Bryher
English novelist, poet, memoirist, and magazine editor (1894-1983)
Carmen Maria Machado
American writer
Nuala O'Faolain
Irish writer (1940–2008)
Taylor Armstrong
American businesswoman, philanthropist and television personality (born 1971)
Jerzy Marcin Lubomirski
Polish nobleman and general (1738-1811)
Alice Bag
American singer
Lidia Yuknavitch
American writer, teacher and editor based in Oregon
Sonali Deraniyagala
Sri Lankan writer
Michelle Tea
American writer
Libby Davies
Canadian politician
Cheri DiNovo
Canadian politician, Ordained United Church Minister and business woman
Bruce Benderson
American writer