Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The main character of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah [2013], Ifemelu grows up in Lagos, Nigeria, of Igbo par...

Audrey Sutherland was known for the swimming and kayaking adventures which she summarized in her motto, “Go simple, go solo, go now,” and ch...

Hilda of Whitby lived from 614-680 A.D. She was said to have ruled the abbeys and farms she controlled in the north of England so well that ...

Susan Sontag, 1968 It is possible you have never heard of Susan Sontag, but for someone of my generation, that would be unlikely. During...

"Portrait of a Young Woman Reading," 1938 by G.B. Barlow Katya Kontent, whose story is told in The Rules of Civility [2011] ...

Wenying Dongfang, 1987 television series The Story of the Stone , also called The Dream of the Red Chamber , by Cao Xuequin [first prin...

Helen Knothe was born into a theosophist family in New Jersey in 1904. She did not want a traditional American education, but went to Eur...