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)