Women autobiographers

New Zealand photographer (1928–2016)

Dame of Sark from 1927 until her death

Chinese writer

Danish politician, writer and autobiographer

Spanish singer

Indian actress

Indian writer

Russian-British Sufi

Bahinabai (1628–1700 AD) or Bahina or Bahini was a female Varkari saint from Maharashtra, India. She is considered a disciple of the Varkari poet-saint Tukaram. Having been born in a Brahmin family, Bahinabai was married to a widower at a young age and spent most of her childhood wandering around Maharashtra along with her family. She describes, in her autobiography Atmamanivedana, her spiritual experiences with a calf and visions of the Varkari's patron deity Vithoba and Tukaram. She reports being subjected to verbal and physical abuse by her husband, who despised her spiritual inclination bu

Australian writer

Turkish translator and writer (1942–1986)

Indian Dalit writer, politician and social worker

20th century Chinese writer

Colombia

Norwegian teacher and writer (1816–1915)

Puerto Rican writer

Spanish-Mexican writer and journalist

Spanish aristocrat, writer, art critic and women's rights activist

Dutch nurse, activist, artist and writer

writer and poet

Vidkun Quisling's first wife

Mexican educator and writer (1893-1970)

Norwegian artist and poet (1903-1998)

Gertrude Bernard (June 18, 1906 – June 17, 1986), commonly known as Anahareo, was a Canadian writer, animal rights activist and conservationist of Algonquin and Mohawk ancestry. Throughout her life, she challenged cultural stereotypes of First Nations women and proved herself to be "an intrepid, resourceful, and self-reliant woman who could manage on her own in the wilderness and yet was no stranger to the customs and trappings of modern civilization". At a time when "conservation" stood for increasing the size of animal populations for the sake of hunting and trapping, she, along with G

Danish actor and autobiographer (1903-1963)

Vjeran Miladinović (1 October 1958 - 22 February 2003), also known as Merlinka, was a transgender sex worker and actress best known for the 1995 film Marble Ass, directed by Želimir Žilnik. Merlika identified as both gay and a crossdresser, and is believed to have been the first openly trans person in the Balkans.

Uruguayan actor, announcer, journalist, columnist and writer

Indian social reformer

Lakota author and indigenous rights activist (1954–2013)

British journalist

Austrian actor and autobiographer (1899-1984)

Turkish writer (1916–2013)

Guinean writer

Zambian princess and author

Guinean writer

Canadian writer

British expatriate, adventurer and memoir writer

Singaporean neurologist

Indian writer

Polish-born British Holocaust survivor and writer (1930–2023)

Dutch writer and translator