rolanni | Women Writers Meme

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This is an interesting list, if un-alphabetized. It seems to give the lie to the persistent myth that few women are working in the field and that those who are, are disrespected. Long as it is, I feel that there are still names missing, despite the efforts of commentors on Delia's blog to amend it -- a process that would, actually, be made easier by alphabetizing, but that is work for Someone Else. Today, the laundry calls my name. Also? The bills.

Bold the women by whom you own books
Italicize those by whom you’ve read something of (short stories count). For the purposes of my list, below, this includes books that I once owned, but own no longer.
*Star those you don’t recognize
Unmarked are those whose work you have not read

Andre Norton
C. L. Moore
Evangeline Walton
Leigh Brackett
Judith Merril
Joanna Russ
Margaret St. Clair
Katherine MacLean
Carol Emshwiller
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Zenna Henderson
Madeline L’Engle
Angela Carter*
Ursula LeGuin
Anne McCaffrey
Diana Wynne Jones
Kit Reed
James Tiptree, Jr.
Rachel Pollack*
Jane Yolen
Marta Randall
Eleanor Arnason
Ellen Asher
Patricia A. McKillip
Suzy McKee Charnas
Lisa Tuttle
Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Tanith Lee
Pamela Sargent
Jayge Carr
Vonda N. McIntyre
Octavia E. Butler
Kate Wilhelm
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Sheila Finch
Mary Gentle
Jessica Amanda Salmonson
C. J. Cherryh
Joan D. Vinge
Teresa Nielsen Hayden
Ellen Kushner
Ellen Datlow
Nancy Kress
Pat Murphy
Lisa Goldstein
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Mary Turzillo
Connie Willis
Barbara Hambly
Nancy Holder
Sheri S. Tepper
Melissa Scott
Margaret Atwood
Lois McMaster Bujold
Jeanne Cavelos
Karen Joy Fowler
Leigh Kennedy*
Judith Moffett
Rebecca Ore
Emma Bull
Pat Cadigan
Kathyrn Cramer
Laura Mixon
Eileen Gunn
Elizabeth Hand
Kij Johnson
Delia Sherman
Elizabeth Moon
Michaela Roessner
Terri Windling
Sharon Lee
Sherwood Smith
Katherine Kurtz
Margo Lanagan*
Laura Resnick
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Sheila Williams
Farah Mendlesohn
Gwyneth Jones
Ardath Mayhar
Esther Friesner
Debra Doyle
Nicola Griffith
Amy Thomson
Martha Wells
Catherine Asaro
Kate Elliott
Kathleen Ann Goonan
Shawna McCarthy
Caitlin Kiernan
Maureen McHugh
Cheryl Morgan
Nisi Shawl
Mary Doria Russell
Kage Baker
Kelly Link
Nancy Springer
J. K. Rowling
Nalo Hopkinson
Ellen Klages
Tanarive Due
M. Rickert*
Theodora Goss*
Mary Anne Mohanraj
S. L. Viehl
Jo Walton
Kristine Smith
Deborah Layne*
Cherie Priest
Wen Spencer
K. J. Bishop*
Catherynne M. Valente
Elizabeth Bear
Ekaterina Sedia
Naomi Novik
Mary Robinette Kowal
Ann VanderMeer*
Patricia C Wrede
Mary Stewart
Caroline Stevermer
Sharon Shinn
Ann Rice
Barbara Michaels
Susanna Clark*
Joan Aiken
Joy Chant
Susan Cooper
Louise Cooper
Edith Nesbit (E.A. Nesbit)
Carol Emshwiller
Rosemary Kirstein
Delia Sherman
Tanya Huff
Camille Bacon-Smith
R. M. Meluch*
Joan Cox*
Jane Linskold
Storm Constantine
Jane S. Fancher
C. E. Murphy
Elizabeth A. Lynn
Anne Bishop
Justina Robson
Judith Tarr

Edited to Add:

Laura Anne Gilman
Anna Leonard
Rachel Caine
Charlaine Harris
Stephenie Meyer