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While you’re waiting for your next unpublished manuscript to arrive, we’ve got you covered with this list of 100 really talented authors, poets and playwrights. It’s literally several centuries worth of stories. Happy reading!
- Virginia Wolf
- Jane Austen
- Toni Morrison
- Margaret Atwood
- Charlotte Brontë
- George Eliot
- Mary Shelley
- Zadie Smith
- J. K. Rowling
- Sylvia Plath
- Doris Lessing
- Alice Munro
- Emily Brontë
- Alice Walker
- Shirley Jackson
- Harper Lee
- Maya Angelou
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Agatha Christie
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Willa Cather
- Flannery O’Connor
- Edith Wharton
- Donna Tartt
- Hilary Mantel
- Annie Proulx
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Daphne du Maurier
- Louisa May Alcott
- Angela Carter
- Carson McCullers
- Gertrude Stein
- Jeanette Winterson
- Elizabeth Gaskell
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Dorothy Parker
- Patricia Highsmith
- Arundhati Roy
- Joan Didion
- Elena Ferrante
- Jean Rhys
- Kate Chopin
- Ali Smith
- Amy Tan
- Iris Murdoch
- Anne Rice
- Emily Dickinson
- Isabel Allende
- Louise Erdrich
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- Elizabeth Bishop
- Adrienne Rich
- Sappho
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Anne Bradstreet
- Carol Ann Duffy
- Phillis Wheatley
- Amy Lowell
- Anne Sexton
- Audre Lorde
- Anna Akhmatova
- Christina Rosetti
- Marianne Moore
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Nikki Giovanni
- Hilda Doolittle
- Lucille Clifton
- Sara Teasdale
- Mary Oliver
- Rita Dove
- Louise Bogan
- Gabriela Mistral
- Anne Brontë
- Denise Levertov
- Louise Glück
- Elinor Wylie
- Laura Riding
- Julia Ward Howe
- Louise Labé
- Marge Piercy
- Wendy Cope
- Sharon Olds
- Emma Lazarus
- Charlotte Turner Smith
- Anne Carson
- Rupi Kaur
- Eavan Boland
- Juana Inéz de la Cruz
- Edit Sitwell
- Saronjini Naidu
- Annie Finch
- Lorraine Hansberry
- Caryl Churchill
- Sarah Kane
- Aphra Behn
- Lucy Prebble
- Suzan-Lori Parks
- Annie Baker
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