Writers

• Murasaki Shikibu (c. 973–c. 1015)
• Izumi Shikibu (c. 975–c. 1027)
• Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784)
• Adah Isaacs Menken (1835–1868)
• Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)
• Martha Jane Burk “Calamity Jane” (1852-1903)
• Margaret Wolfe Hungerford (1855–1897) — “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”
• Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915)
• Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861–1937)
• Else Lasker-Schüler (1869–1945)
• William Henry Davies (1871–1940)
• Zofka Kveder (1878–1926)
• Zabel Yesayan (1878–1943)
• Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879–1958)
• Anzia Yezierska (1880-1970)
• Alma Karlin (1889–1950)
• Stevie Smith (1902–1971)
• Iraj Pezeshkzad (1904–2022)
• Margaret Wise Brown (1910–1952)
• Elsa Morante (1912–1985)
• Vicente Aranda (1926–2015) — Carmen (2003 film)
• Hushang Ebtehaj (1928– )
• Dervla Murphy (1931–2022)
• Houshang Moradi Kermani (1944– )
• Baktash Abtin (1974–2022)