Early 20th Century

1. Edith Wharton (1862-1937)

Collected Works at Project Gutenberg

Biography
“The Other Two”
“The Reckoning”
“Kerfol”
"Roman Fever"

2. Sui Sin Far [Edith Maud Eaton] (1865-1914)

Biography
“Mrs. Spring Fragrance”
“In the Land of the Free”
“Its Wavering Image”

3. Mary Austin (1868-1934)

4. Charlotte Mew (1869-1928)

Biography
“The Farmer’s Bride”
“From a Window”
“Saturday Market”

5. Henry Handel Richardson [Ethel Florence Richardson] (1870-1946)

6. Willa Cather (1873-1947)

Collected Works at Project Gutenberg

7. Dorothy Richardson (1873-1957)

8. Amy Lowell (1874-1925)

Biography
“The Captured Goddess”
“A Decade”
“The Letter”
“Venus Transiens”
“Madonna of the Evening Flowers”

9. Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)

10. Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935)

Biography
“I Sit and Sew”
“Mr. Baptiste”

11. Zitkala Ša [Gertrude Simmons Bonnin] (1876-1938)

12. Susan Glaspell (1876-1948)

13. Radclyffe Hall (1880-1943)

Biography
“Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself”

14. Anzia Yezierska (ca. 1880-1970)

Biography
“The Lost Beautifulness”

15. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

Some Works on Project Gutenberg

16. Mina Loy (1882-1966)

17. Anne Spencer (1882-1975)

19. Mourning Dove [Humishuma] [Christine Quintasket] (ca. 1884-1936)

Biography
Coyote Stories
Recommended Novel: Cogewea

20. Elinore Wylie (1885-1928)

21. Isak Dinesen (1885-1962)

22. H.D. [Hilda Doolittle] (1886-1961)

Biography
“Cassandra”
“Helen”
“Leda”
“Oread”
“Eurydice”
“Evening”

23. Edith Sitwell (1887-1964)

24. Marianne Moore (1887-1972)

25. Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923)

26. Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)

27. Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)

28. Nella Larson (1891-1964)

29. Edna St. Vincent Millay: Page on Poetry Foundation Website

30. Djuna Barnes (1892-1982)

31. Rebecca West (1892-1983)

32. Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)

33. Jean Rhys (1894-1979)

Biography
“The Day They Burned the Books”
“I Used to Live Here Once”
Recommended Novel: The Wide Sargasso Sea

34. Louise Bogan (1897-1970)

35. Marita Bonner (1899-1971)

Biography
“On Being Young—a Woman—and Colored”

36. Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973)

37. Meridel Le Sueur (1900-1996)

Later 20th Century Literature

1. Eudora Welty (1909-2001)

2. Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)

3. Tillie Olsen (1912-2007)

Website with Excerpted Work

4. Judith Wright (1915-2000)

5. Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)

6. Oodgeroo Noonunccal [Kath Walker] (1920-1993)

7. Denise Levertov (1923-1997)

8. Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)

9. Maxine Kumin (1925-2014)

10. Anne Sexton (1928-1974)

11. Maya Angelou (1928-2014)

12. Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018)

Biography
"She Unnames Them"
“The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”
The Compass Rose (Collection of Short Stories)
Recommended Novels: The Dispossessed or The Left Hand of Darkness

13. Adrienne Rich (1929-2012)

14. Toni Morrison (1931-2019)

15. Alice Munro (1931- )

16. Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)

17. Audre Lorde (1934-1992)

18. Lucille Clifton (1936-2010)

19. Margaret Atwood (1939- )

20. Maxine Hong Kingston (1940- )

21. Sharon Olds (1942- )

22. Louise Gluck (1943- )

23. Leslie Marmon Silko (1948- )

24. Julia Alvarez (1950- )

24. Carolyn Forché (1950- )

25. Rita Dove (1952- )

26. Kim Addonizio (1954- )

27. Sandra Cisneros (1954- )

28. Helena María Viramontes (1954- )

29. Jhumpa Lahiri (1967- )