21st Century Woman Writers

Nadine Gordimer
-20 November 1923
-Springs, Gauteng, South Africa
-The conservationist
-Banned July’s People



Ursula Le Guin
-October 21, 1929
-Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
-Berkeley, California
-Sci-Fi Fantasy


Alice Munro
-Alice Ann Laidlaw
-10 July 1931
-Wingham, Ontario, Canada
-Short Stories- White Dump


A.S. Byatt
-Dame Antonia Susan Duffy
-Antonia Susan Drabble
-Drabble – Byatt -- Duffy
-24 August 1936
-Sheffield, England, UK
-"I don't believe that human beings are basically good, so I think all utopian movements are doomed to fail, but I am interested in them."


Joyce carol Oates
-16 June 1938
-Lockport, New York
->50 novels + volumes of short stories, poetry and non fiction


Caryl Churchill
-3 September 1938
-London, England
-Non-naturalistic dramatist


Margaret Atwood
-Margaret Eleanor Atwood
-November 18, 1939
-Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
-The Handmaid’s Tale
-Full time schooling in 8th grade


Maxine Hong Kingston
-Maxine Ting Ting Hong
-April 27, 1940
-Stockton, California
-The Woman Warrior
-U of California, Berkley
-3rd of 8, oldest of 6


Bharati Mukherjee
-July 27, 1940
-Calcutta, West Bengal, India
-Jasmine
-U of California, Berkley


Leslie Marmon Silko
-March 5, 1948
-Laguna Pueblo tribe
-Albuquerque, New Mexico
-Ceremony


Jamaica Kincaid
-May 25, 1949
-Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson
-St. John's, Antigua, Antigua and Barbuda.


Joy Harjo
-Tulsa, Oklahoma
-May 9, 1951
-Muscogee (Creek) Nation, and Cherokee descent
-Poetic Justic [Alto Saxophone]
-Poetry, children’s books, musician


Rita Dove
-Rita Frances Dove
-28 August 1952
-Akron, Ohio
-Thomas and Beulah
-Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress



Louise Erdrich
-Karen Louise Erdrich
-Little Falls, Minnesota
-born June 7, 1954
-Love Medicine
-Birchbark Books


Jeanettte Winterson
-27 August 1959
-Manchester, England
-Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
-Adopted at one year, sermons by 6 and lesbian by 16
-“What you risk reveals what you value.”