Equal Time

[prufrock21]

Usually when writers are mentioned, almost always the males of the species hog the limelight. Therefore, who are your all-time favorite female writers? Mine are:
Mary Shelley, Anne Sexton, Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Flannery O'Connor.

 

[FlakeNoir]

Some of my favourites have been:

Margret Mahy
Shirley Conran
Meg Gardiner
Katherine Mansfield
Enid Blyton
Diana Gabaldon

 

[kingricefan]

Shirley Jackson
Patricia Cornwell
Anne Rice
Tabitha King
Fannie Flagg
JA Jance
Amy Tan
Margaret Mitchell
JK Rowling

Wow, just had a gander at my bookshelves and the female writers are sorely lacking space there...... Funny that, because most of my favorite singers are female.....

 

[Doc Creed]

In no particular order:
Carson McCullers, Barbara Kingsolver, Donna Tartt, Toni Morrison, Eudora Welty, Lee Smith, Alice Hoffman, Jane Smiley, and Flannery O'Connor.

 

[Dana Jean]

Karen Russell
Meg Gardiner
Lisa See
JK Rowling
Shirley Jackson
Sue Grafton

 

[kingricefan]

Shirley Jackson
Patricia Cornwell
Anne Rice
Tabitha King
Fannie Flagg
JA Jance
Amy Tan
Margaret Mitchell
JK Rowling

Wow, just had a gander at my bookshelves and the female writers are sorely lacking space there...... Funny that, because most of my favorite singers are female.....

I forgot to add Alice Walker!!! Who can forget The Color Purple?

 

[Spideyman]

Meg Gardiner
Donna Tartt
JK Rowling
Maya Angelou
Kelly Braffett

 

[Pucker]

Flannery O'Connor, of course.
Ursula K. Leguin
Hard not to say Mary Ann Evans ... just because.
Ursula K. Leguin again.
Cynthia Robinson is kind of funny.

I dunno ... there are probably others.

 

[Ray T]

Tess Garretson.
Daphne Demour. (sic) Writer of Rebecca.

 

[mal]

I only like female writers who are hot looking.

 

[kingricefan]

Hmmmm, no one's mentioned Harper Lee yet.......

 

[Doc Creed]

Hmmmm, no one's mentioned Harper Lee yet.......

I thought of her immediately but since I'm from the South that goes without saying, ha.

 

[carrie's younger brother]

Margaret Atwood

 

[GNTLGNT]

...Erma Bombeck.....

 

[Kurben]

Donna Tartt
Ursula K LeGuin
Shirley Jackson
Lucy Montgomery
Emily Bronte
Agatha Christie
Margaret Atwood
Tanith Lee
Astrid Lindgren
Karin Boye

 

[blunthead]

Agatha Christie
Meg Gardiner
Judy Blume
Harper Lee
Erma Bombeck
Mary Shelley
Daphne du Maurier
Shirley Jackson
Patricia Cornwell

 

[Kurben]

I

Agatha Christie
Meg Gardiner
Judy Blume
Harper Lee
Erma Bombeck
Mary Shelley
Daphne du Maurier
Shirley Jackson
Patricia Cornwell

I forgot about Daph e du Maurier!!

 

[kingricefan]

Donna Tartt
Ursula K LeGuin
Shirley Jackson
Lucy Montgomery
Emily Bronte
Agatha Christie
Margaret Atwood
Tanith Lee
Astrid Lindgren
Karin Boye

I love Tanith Lee!!!

 

[Kurben]

I Totally forgot about one great author. Selma Lagerlöf. Nobel prize winner 1909 and still a great read. (It is true i think that sweden has won one or two prizes the winners did not deserve because he happened to be a swede but she is not one of them). One of Swedens, in my opinion, few world class authors. Written many types of books, long epics, she was good at ghost stories that she often incorporated in her novels. She has written a youth travel story about a young man traveling on a goose back through sweden. She certainly has past the test of time.

 

[Kurben]

I love Tanith Lee!!!

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