Profiles Index

Maeve Binchy
A profile of Maeve Binchy, Irish writer

Doris Kearns Goodwin
Doris Kearns Godwin biography - profile of writer Doris Kearns Goodwin, biographer of the Kennedys, Roosevelts, Lyndon Johnson, and Abraham Lincoln.

Isabel Allende
Biography and list of Net and print resources about and by Isabel Allende, Chile-born writer and educator who has worked and lived in the United States.

Caroline Kennedy
A biography of Caroline Kennedy (Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg).

Nelly Sachs
Nelly Sachs, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966, was a German Jew who took refuge in Sweden in 1940 and wrote of the Holocaust and Jewish experience.

Fannie Hurst
A profile of Fannie Hurst, writer, part of a collection of profiles on notable women in history.

Sarojini Naidu
About Sarojini Naidu, Indian poet and political activist, a key part of Gandhi's independence movement.

Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing profile, with the basics of the life and career of Doris Lessing, British woman writer.

Muna Lee
A biographical sketch of Muna Lee, author, feminist, and Pan-Americanist.

Lillian Hellman
A biography of Lillian Hellman, woman writer and playwright whose plays often included anti-fascist themes.

Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn
Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn was a 20th century woman poet from Vermont whose poems often highlighted social injustices.

Francesca Alexander
A profile of folklorist Francesca Alexander, who published Tuscan folk songs.