By Elodie Barnes | On June 9, 2024 | Updated March 15, 2025 | Comments (0)
Jan Morris (October 2, 1926 – November 2, 2020) was a Welsh author and historian, whose work spanned the genres of journalism, memoir, history, essays, articles, and novels.
As a writer, she is best known for her Pax Britannia trilogy (a social history of the British Empire) and her written portraits of cities including Trieste, Venice, Oxford, Hong Kong, and New York City.
She is also famous for her transition from male to female in 1972, making her one of the first transgender public figures. Read More→
By Alex J. Coyne | On June 3, 2024 | Updated June 1, 2025 | Comments (0)
Mariama Bâ (April 17, 1929 – August 17, 1981) was a Senegalese novelist, poet, teacher, and feminist. Her best-known works, So Long a Letter and Scarlet Song, both written from a woman’s perspective, explored themes of multiculturalism, polygamy, oppression, interpersonal relationships, and grief.
These two novels are among the most widely translated and studied African works of the twentieth century, according to Cambridge University Press. Read More→
By Taylor Jasmine | On May 27, 2024 | Updated October 10, 2024 | Comments (0)
Harriet Martineau (June 12, 1802 – June 27, 1876) was an English social theorist, lecturer, and novelist. She was also an ardent supporter of women’s suffrage and other causes of her day.
Her writings, which earned enough to support herself (quite rare for a woman of her time) were proto-feminist and discusses aspects of culture pertaining to religion, politics, economics, and social institutions.
Harriet lost her senses of taste and smell from an early age and was partially deaf. Other health issues hindered her, yet she persevered in bringing her theories to a receptive audience. Read More→
By Marcie McCauley | On May 26, 2024 | Updated February 7, 2026 | Comments (0)
Lois Duncan (April 28, 1934 – June 15, 2016) published more than fifty books, beginning with romance novels for adults and ending with picture books for children—but her name is synonymous with the teen thrillers that have remained her best-known works.
Feature films based on her books, like Down a Dark Hall (2018) and I Know What You Did Last Summer (2021), have continued to sustain her readership.
Just as her thrillers took ordinary people and thrust them into dark places, her personal life was profoundly impacted by her teenage daughter’s murder. In 1992, Lois Duncan was back in the headlines some six years after her death, when charges were brought against the man who confessed to the 1989 murder of her youngest daughter. Read More→
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