Celebrate These Famous Female Authors On International Women's Day
Famous Female Authors
Need a good book? Dive into a number of gripping, heart wrenching, funny, and fantastic novels written by these lovely ladies. Here are some novels written by famous female authors just in time for International Women's Day.
Virginia Woolf
Best known for: Mrs. Dalloway, To The Lighthouse, A Room of One's Own, The Waves, A Writer's Diary
Alice Walker
Best known for: The Color Purple, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
Jane Austen
Best known for: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey
Maya Angelou
Best known for: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Mom & Me & Mom, Letter To My Daughter, The Complete Poetry.
Sylvia Plath
Best known for: The Collected Poems, The Bell Jar, The Colossus and Other Poems, Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams, Crossing the Water, Ariel: Poems, Letters Home.
Agatha Christie
Best known for: And Then There Were None, Murder on the Orient Express, The ABC Murders, Death on the Nile, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Five Little Pigs.
Nora Ephron
Best known for: Heartburn, I Feel Bad About My Neck, Wallflower at the Orgy, The Most of Nora Ephron
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Best known for: Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, Half of a Yellow Sun, We Should All Be Feminists, Americanah.
Suzanne Collins
Best known for: The Hunger Games series, Gregor the Underland Chronicles.
Zadie Smith
Best known for: Swing Time, Feel Free, White Teeth, On Beauty, Changing My Mind, NW.
Annie Proulx
Best known for: The Shipping News, Brokeback Mountain, Close Range, Barkskins.
Danielle Steel
Best known for: Fall From Grace, The Cast, Against All Odds, The Right Time and so many more. She is so badass that she "has sold 650 million copies of her books internationally, and every one of her books is a bestseller".
Judy Blume
Best known for: Smart Women, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Are You There God? It's Me Margaret, Freckle Juice.
Margaret Atwood
Best known for: The Handmaid's Tale, Alias Grace, Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood, The Blind Assassin, The Heart Goes Last.
Toni Morrison
Best known for: Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, The Origin of Others.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Best known for: The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth, The Lowland, Interpreter of Maladies
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