Anchee Min Leslie Marmon Silko Linda Ching Sledge Gloria Naylor Miho Obana Zora Neal Hurston Francesca Kay Octavia Butler Joyce Hackett Audre Lorde Yael Goldstein Masami Tsuda Ken Akamatsu La Banks Tananarive Due Lori Johnson Diane Mckinney Whetstone Rumiko Takahashi Olivia Butler Jan D'Lord Gail Tsukiyama Liza Dalby Bernice Mcfadden Gosho Aoyama Paul Bowles Zora Neale Hurston Marguerite Duras Louise Erdrich Alice Walker Katherine Paterson Walter Mosley Toni Morrison Kate Atkinson Amy Tan Maya Angelou Wally Lamb Anne Tyler Jostein Gaarder Zadie Smith Sylvia Plath Virginia Woolf Helen Fielding Barbara Kingsolver Ayn Rand David Sedaris John Steinbeck Hunter S. Thompson Douglas Coupland