Award-Winners

For this site, I define 'Award-Winners' as any women who, either during their lives or posthumously . . .

  • Received awards/medals/prizes/honors including Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes

  • Received a prestigious grant/fellowship, such as a Guggenheim Fellowship

  • Was inducted into a prominent hall of fame

  • Received an honorary degree from a university

19th Century

  • María Bibiana Benítez & Alejandrina Benítez de Gautier

  • Sarah Winnemucca

  • Ida B. Wells

  • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

  • Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, or Bamewawagezhikaquay

  • Nellie Bly

  • Harriet Jacobs

  • Anna Katharine Green

  • The Grimké Sisters

  • Fanny Crosby

20th Century

  • Patricia Polacco

  • Susan Glaspell

  • Rachel Crothers

  • J. California Cooper

  • Alice Gerstenberg

  • Janet Campbell Hale

  • Zoe Akins

  • Hallie Flanagan Davis

  • Zona Gale

  • Charlotte Armstrong

  • Pearl S. Buck

  • Lola Ridge

  • Leslie Feinberg

  • Eileen Myles

  • Beth Brant

  • Maxine Hong Kingston

  • Nella Larsen

  • Mary Kawena Pukui

  • Mary TallMountain

  • Julia de Burgos

  • Mitsuye Yamada

  • Ntozake Shange

  • Anne Spencer

  • Nellie Wong

  • Merle Woo

  • Hisaye Yamamoto

  • Wakako Yamauchi

  • Martha Gellhorn

  • Virginia Hamilton

  • Anna Lee Walters

  • Mary Jobe Akeley

  • Jean Craighead George

  • K. Connie Kang

  • Emily Ivanoff (Ticasuk) Brown

“Energy rightly applied and directed will accomplish anything.”

-Nellie Bly