Woman authors

Simone de Beauvoir at her office, 1955, Paris.

In a celebration of the brilliant female authors of the past, we’ve collated a list of our top ten classic feminist novels.

A visual history of the writer Sylvia Plath is to go on show at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC

Vintage young woman writing the letter in library

Here at the Literary Hub office, pretty much every day is Take Your Dog to Work Day. Or so we hope and dream. Sometimes, when we’re lucky, we do have a dog in the office: our current Editoria…

It's not just about the Tudors – delve into Renaissance Florence or 1950s Brooklyn

A list of American author and activist Alice Walker's favorite books, from Elena Ferrante and Langston Hughes to Malala Yousafzai and Zora Neale Hurston.

From Drake to Wayne Gretzky to Justin Trudeau, these are the greatest Canadians. In honor of Canada Day.

A fierce playwright, a fiery socialist and a pioneering feminist, Lillian Hellman lived unapologetically. But today she's remembered as a fabulist and a rabble-rouser — if she's remembered at all. A new Hellman biography, A Difficult Woman, hopes to set the record straight.

Genius, captured on camera.

A list of 40 books recommended by Italian novelist Elena Ferrante, including work by Joan Didion, Toni Morrison and Zadie Smith.

For her latest Our Shared Shelf book club choice, Emma Watson chats with author Marjane Satrapi about her groundbreaking autobiographical graphic novel, Persepolis.

Agatha Christie (b. 1890 – 1976) was an English crime writer of novels, short…

Louisa May Alcott writing at desk. In 1860, Alcott began writing for the Atlantic Monthly. When the American Civil War broke out, she served as a nurse in the Union Hospital at Georgetown, D.C. Her...

From Audre Lorde to Rupi Kaur, read a list of actress and activist Emma Watson's favorite feminist book recommendations.

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