Women Writers Meme List -- Alphabetized

[rolanni]

Title Edited, and Edited to Add: Folks, this is a meme. I will not be updating the list, though certainly someone else may wish to take that on.

Thanks to Susan Cole for alphabetizing the list, and cleaning out the duplicates that had already snuck in.

The Rules of the Game Are:
Bold the women by whom you own books
Italicize those by whom you’ve read something of (short stories count).
*Star those you don’t recognize
Unmarked are those whose work you have not read


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

Comments

[trolleypup.livejournal.com]

And underline the ones where, when you saw the name, you had to go read something of.

[murphy73.livejournal.com]

Missing Robin Hobb from this list (aka Megan Lindhold (sp?))

[intuition-ist.livejournal.com]

eluki bes shahar and rosemary edghill are the same person. i know you're not updating, but hopefully people wlil also read the comments. :)

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Right. So are Laura Anne Gilman and Anna Leonard the same person. Some people follow one name, others another...

[zanzjan.livejournal.com]

I was reimaging my computer classroom on Friday and there were two women in one of the study cubicles as I was running the updates. I mostly wasn't paying attention to their conversation until they started talking about science fiction and listing their favorite authors, and then one of them said it was too bad that women didn't write SF. )-:

It made me very sad. Alas, there was no opportunity to inform them otherwise.

Yet another for your list

[(Anonymous)]

N. Lee Wood.

Some additions for those reading comments

[herbmcsidhe.livejournal.com]

Diane Duane
Ann Maxwell (aka A.E. Maxwell, Elizabeth Lowell for her non-SF stuff)
Lilith Saintclair
Amy Tan

Re: Some additions for those reading comments

[herbmcsidhe.livejournal.com]

Oh, how could I forget Suzette Haden Elgin, aka ozarque

Re: Some additions for those reading comments

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Diana L. Paxson, Seanan McGuire, Jaine Fenn, Kelley Armstrong, Juanita Coulson, Liz Williams...

(There are actually a lot of female SF writers. I haven't actually counted on my bookshelves, but I have a suspicion that I have more female than male SF writers there, especially in more recent ones (a lot of the early published SF writers were male which overbalanced it when I started reading SF). So far this year my reading has been just about balanced, but that does include rereading several male writers who are no longer writing (Clarke, Heinlein, Wyndham). Looking at the books I currently have on order, only one is by a male author (Jim Hines)...)

[deor.livejournal.com]

Mur Lafferty

More from my last 4 years of reading

[(Anonymous)]

Sarah Ash
Brenda Cooper
Julie Czerneda
Linda Evans
Jennifer Fallon
Ellen Guon
Laurel K. Hamilton
Eva Ibbotson
Elizabeth Kerner
Mercedes Lackey
Karen Miller
Holly Lisle
Sarah Monette
Audrey Niffenegger
Jody Lynn Nye
Melinda Snodgrass
Amy Tan
Megan Whalen Turner

[(Anonymous)]

Some more authors:S.H. Elgin
Kelly Eskridge
Valerie Freireich
Susan Matthews
Carol Ives Gilman
Julian May
Maxine McArthur
Karen Traviss
Kathy Tyers
Jennifer Wingert
Sarah Zettel

Peggy

One More

[(Anonymous)]

How did I forget Janet Kagan?

Susan
Orlando

And more before I can get to sleep...

[(Anonymous)]

Jo Clayton
Janet R Morris
Rosemary Sutcliff

SJH

Did I miss....

[(Anonymous)]

Patricia Briggs
Michelle Sagara West
P. N. Elrod
Diana Pharoah Francis
Jacqueline Carey
Kim Harrison
Kat Richardson

[(Anonymous)]

What about Robin McKinley? Or does she stray too much towards fantasy? Jenny from CO

[isabellag.livejournal.com]

I'm a bit shocked that Angela Carter was starred on your list, she was a fantastic writer and one of the first 'grown-up' writers I read, after being introduced to Andrea Norton & Ursula Le Guin as a goil... do you think this is because she was English? I strongly recommend Nights at the Circus, if anybody's looking for a place to start.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

I read a lot of English authors -- to the point where I was shocked to learn recently that someone could come to adulthood and never have read any English authors. I think rather that it's a case of So Many Authors... Believe it or not, there are readers out there who have never heard of Sharon Lee and Steve Miller!

[isabellag.livejournal.com]

Yep, but that must just be an oversight, right?

[(Anonymous)]

Some already mentioned but here's my additions

Grace Ingram Pen Name for Doris Sutcliffe Adams
Ann Aguirre
Alma Alexander
Andrea I Alton
Patricia Briggs
N M Browne
Lillian Stewart Carl
Kristin Cashore
Dawn Cook
Julie E Czerneda
Pamela Dean
Virginia DeMarce
Diane Duane
Doranna Durgin
Emily Gee
Sharon Green
Shannon Hale
Mette Ivie Harrison
Dorothy J Heydt aka 'Katherine Blake'
Joan Aiken Hodge
P C Hodgell
Cecelia Holland
Sarah Hoyt aka Sarah D'Almeida aka Elise Hyatt
Janet Kagan
Sylvia Kelso
Marilyn Kosmatka
Mercedes Lackey
Robin McKinley
Susan R Matthews
Tamora Pierce
Julia Riding
Madeleine E Robins
Michelle Sagara
Linnea Sinclair
Maria Snyder
Megan Whalen Turner
Elizabeth Vaughan
Paula Volsky
Liz Williams
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Mike D
Little Egret in Walton-on-Thames

One more.....

[(Anonymous)]

Lynn Abbey

SJH