Nonfiction & Journalism

19th Century

  • Sui Sin Far

  • Margaret Fuller

  • The Grimké Sisters

  • Eliza Suggs

  • Laura Redden Searing

  • Nellie Bly

  • Fanny Crosby

20th Century

  • Zitkála-Šá

  • Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  • Janet Campbell Hale

  • Hallie Flanagan Davis

  • Pearl S. Buck

  • Leslie Feinberg

  • Beth Brant

  • Maxine Hong Kingston

  • Jovita Idar

  • Mary Kawena Pukui

  • Mitsuye Yamada

  • Ntozake Shange

  • Luisa Capetillo

  • Audre Lorde

  • Nellie Wong

  • Merle Woo

  • Hisaye Yamamoto

  • Martha Gellhorn

  • Anna Lee Walters

  • Mary Jobe Akeley

  • K. Connie Kang

  • Emily Ivanoff (Ticasuk) Brown

“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.”

-Ida B. Wells