Women | US-CT | Connecticut

1710s

Sarah Pierpont Edwards (09 jan 1710 – 02 oct 1758 | New Haven CT – Philadelphia PA) author, mystic, pioneer woman, minister’s wife 

1720s

1730s

1740s

1750s

Anna Warner Bailey (11 oct 1758 – 19 jan 1851 | Groton CT – Groton CT) folk figure, storyteller, tavern keeper, Revolutionary War heroine, aka Mother Bailey and The Petticoat Patriot

1760s

Sarah Pierce (26 jun 1767 – 19 jan 1852 | Litchfield CT – Litchfield CT) educator, girls’ school founder, women’s education advocate 

1770s

1780s

Mary Hempstead Keeney Lisa (25 oct 1782 – 03 sep 1869 | New London CT – Galena IL) folk figure, aka Aunt Manuel, first white woman to enter upper Missouri Indian territory

Mary Austin Holley (30 oct 1784 – 31 jul 1827 | New Haven CT – New Orleans LA) settler, explorer, historical author

Emma Hart Willard (23 feb 1787 – 15 apr 1870 | Berlin CT – Troy NY) poet, author, educator, founded Troy Female Seminary

Abigail Goodrich Whittelsey (29 nov 1788 – 16 jul 1858 | Ridgefield CT – Colchester CT) The Mothers’ Magazine founding editor and publisher

1790s

Lydia Huntley Sigourney (01 sep 1791 – 10 jun 1865 | Norwich CT – Hartford CT) poet, critic, children’s writer, girls’ school founder, autobiographical author, aka The Sweet Singer of Hartford

Ann Hall (26 may 1792 – 11 dec 1863 | Pomfret CT – New York NY) miniature portrait painter

Julia Evelina Smith (27 may 1792 – 06 mar 1886 | Glastonbury CT – Hartford CT) author, suffragist, women’s tax / property activist, first female English Bible translator

Zilpah Polly Grant Banister (30 may 1794 – 03 dec 1874 | Norfolk CT – Newburyport MA) educator, pamphleteer, women’s seminary founder 

Frances Manwaring Caulkins (26 apr 1795 – 03 feb 1869 | New London CT – New London CT) writer, memoirist, historian

1800s

Harriet Ruggles Gold Boudinot (01 jun 1805 – 15 aug 1836 | Cornwall CT – New Echota GA) folk figure, letter correspondent, Cherokee marriage partner / pioneer 

Calista H. Vinton (19 apr 1807 – 18 dec 1864 | Willington CT – Rangoon, Burma [now Myanmar]) Baptist missionary, teacher, preacher, mission school administrator

Julia Brace (13 jun 1807 – 12 aug 1884 | Newington CT – Bloomfield CT) nurse, deafblind from childhood typhus fever, developed her own system of signing, studied and worked at American School for the Deaf 

Eliza Hart Spalding (11 aug 1807 – 13 jan 1851 | Kensington CT – Brownsville OR) diarist, pioneer, missionary to Nez Perce, mother of Eliza Spalding Warren

1810s

Ann Sophia Winterbotham Stephens (30 mar 1810 – 20 aug 1886 | Derby CT – Newport RI) poet, author, novelist, essayist, magazine editor and founder

Sarah Ann Major Harris Fayerweather (16 apr 1812 – 16 nov 1878 | Norwich CT – Kingston RI) African-American activist, abolitionist, school integrationist

Sarah Porter (16 aug 1813 – 18 feb 1900 | Farmington CT – Farmington CT) educator, women’s suffrage opponent, promoter of legal reforms for women, founder of elite private Miss Porter’s School for girls 

Mary Grew (01 sep 1813 – 10 oct 1896 | Hartford CT – Philadelphia PA) preacher, feminist, abolitionist, social activist, public speaker |

Josephine Sophia White Griffing (18 dec 1814 – 18 feb 1872 | Hebron CT – Washington DC) suffragist, abolitionist, women’s rights activist, Freedmen’s movement member

Eunice Newton Foote (17 jul 1819 – 30 sep 1888 | Goshen CT – Lenox MA) scientist, inventor, essayist, women’s rights campaigner, portaitr / landscape painter, early greenhouse effect researcher, signatory of Women’s Declaration of Sentiments 

1820s

Isabella Beecher Hooker (22 feb 1822 – 25 jan 1907 | Litchfield CT – Hartford CT) author, suffragist activist / leader / lecturer

Jane Elizabeth Manning James (22 sep 1822 – 16 apr 1908 | Connecticut US – Salt Lake City UT) early LDS member, aka Aunt Jane, first black female Mormon pioneer in Utah Territory

Rose Terry Cooke (17 feb 1827 – 18 jul 1892 | West Hartford CT – Pittsfield MA) poet, author, humorist, women’s biographer

1830s

Elizabeth Crocker Bowers (12 mar 1830 – 06 nov 1895 | Stamford CT – Philadelphia PA) stage actress, theatrical / music academy manager

Mary Hanchett Hunt (04 jun 1830 – 24 apr 1906 | South Canaan CT – Dorchester MA) Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) leader / author / lecturer 

Emily Huntington Miller (22 oct 1833 – 02 nov 1913 | Brooklyn CT – Northfield MN) poet, author, educator, hymn writer, laid groundwork for formation of National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)

Louise Chandler Moulton (10 apr 1835 – 10 aug 1908 | Pomfret CT – Boston MA) poet, critic, short-story writer, prose fiction author, literary salon hostess

Martha [Mittie] Stewart Bulloch Roosevelt (08 jul 1835 – 14 feb 1884 | Hartford CT – New York NY) political family member, mother of US President Theodore Roosevelt, political family member 

Maria Louise Sanford (19 dec 1836 – 21 apr 1920 | Old Saybrook CT – Washington DC) educator, English / rhetoric / history / elocution professor

Mary Anna Palmer Draper (11 sep 1839 – 08 dec 1914 | Stonington CT – New York NY) astronomer, art collector, philanthropist, photographer, Carnegie Institute founder

1840s

Mary Lydia Bolles Branch (13 jun 1840 – 17 apr 1922 | New London CT – New London CT) children’s author / short story writer 

Sarah Knowles Bolton (15 sep 1841 – 21 feb 1916 | Farmington CT – Cleveland OH)  poet, writer, biographer, children’s author

Mary Eno Bassett Mumford (09 may 1842 – 09 may 1935 | Litchfield CT – New Britain CT) author, activist, editor, teacher

Mary Hall (16 aug 1843 – 15 nov 1927 | Marlborough CT – Marlborough CT) poet, suffragist, philanthropist, mathematics teacher, first CT Notary, first female lawyer admitted to Connecticut Bar, founded boys’ charity Good Will Club [became Boys’ Club USA] 

Harriett Mulford Stone Lothrop (22 jun 1844 – 02 aug 1924 | New Haven CT – San Francisco CA) aka Margaret Sidney, publisher, literary hostess, children’s fiction author, historical preservationist, Children of the American Revolution founder / facilitator | women.born.today © susan.powers.bourne

Christine Ladd-Franklin (01 dec 1847 – 05 mar 1930 | Windsor CT – New York NY) author, logician, psychologist, mathematician, color vision theorist / researcher

Ida Whipple Benham (08 jan 1849 – 21 may 1903 | Quakertown CT –  Ledyard CT) poet, hymnist, educator, peace activist, American Peace Society director, Universal Peace Union executive committee member

Josephine Emma Curtis Hopkins (02 sep 1849 – 08 apr 1925 | Killingly CT – Killingly CT) author, mystic, feminist, teacher, theologian, spiritual prophet, New Thought leader / organizer

1850s

Mary Augusta Jordan (05 jul 1855 – 14 apr 1941 | Ironton OH – New Haven CT) editor, author, lecturer, librarian, professor 

Sarah Pratt [Sally] McLean Greene (03 jul 1856 – 29 dec 1935 | Simsbury CT – Lexington MA) poet, novelist 

Julia Henrietta Gulliver (30 jul 1856 – 25 jul 1940 | Norwich CT – Eustis FL) author, educator, philosopher, Rockford College president, second US woman awarded PhD

Annie Eliot Trumbull (02 mar 1857 – 22 dec 1949 | Hartford CT – Hartford CT) poet, author, playwright

Mary Ellen [Ella] Quinlan O’Neill (13 aug 1857 – 28 feb 1922 | New Haven CT – Los Angeles CA) pianist, literary figure / inspiration, mother of playwright Eugene O’Neill 

Mary Roger Williams (30 sep 1857 – 17 sep 1907 | Hartford CT – Florence, Italy) American Impressionist, oil / pastel portrait / landscape artist

Alice Mabel Bacon (26 feb 1858 – 01 may 1918 | New Haven CT – New Haven CT) nonfiction author, foreign advisor to Japan, international women’s educator

Angie Warren Perkins (06 nov 1858 – 28 jan 1921 | Danielson CT – Knoxville TN) author, educator, travel writer, club woman, first female dean University of Tennessee

1860s

Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt (06 aug 1861 – 30 sep 1948 | Norwich CT – Oyster Bay NY) US First Lady, social activist, knitter and needlework artist 

Lurana Waterhouse Sheldon Ferris (11 apr 1862 – 11 jun 1945 | Hadlyme CT – York ME) poet, lecturer, novelist, suffragist, freethinker, newspaper editor, anti-prohibitionist, pen names Richard Hackstaff, Stanley Norris, Grace Shirley

Mary Whiton Calkins (30 mar 1863 – 26 feb 1930 | Hartford CT – Newton MA) author, researcher, philosopher, psychologist, autobiographical author, Wellesley professor, earned Harvard PhD but un-awarded because of gender, first female president of American Psychological Association and American Philosophical Association

Mary Emma Woolley (13 jul 1863 – 05 sep 1947 | South Norwalk CT – Westport NY) author, educator, suffragist, peace activist, first female student at Brown University, 11th President of Mount Holyoke College

Elisabeth Coit Gilman (25 dec 1867 – 14 dec 1950 | New Haven CT – Baltimore MD) US Socialist, social worker, political activist, civil rights / liberties advocate, Maryland Civil Liberties Committee co-founder, hosted first public interracial dinner at her home in Baltimore MD

1870s

Anna Hempstead Branch (18 mar 1875 – 08 sep 1937 | New London CT – New London CT) poet

Matilda Calder Thurston (16 may 1875 – 18 apr 1958 | Hartford CT – Auburndale MA) US missionary, memoirist, college founder

Edith Dimock Glackens (16 feb 1876 – 28 oct 1955 | Hartford CT – Hartford CT) aka Teed, painter, visual artist, ironic / satirical watercolorist

Elizabeth Wright (14 nov 1876 – 23 feb 1963 | Hartford CT – New London CT) educator, novelist, academic administrator, women’s educational rights activist, co-founder of Connecticut College for Women (now Connecticut College)

1880s

Genevieve Garvan Brady (11 apr 1880 – 24 nov 1938 | Hartford CT – Rome, Italy)  philanthropist, patron of Catholic charities, appointed papal duchess [1926], first woman to receive honorary degree from Georgetown University

Hettie Gray Baker (12 jul 1880 – 14 nov 1957 | Hartford CT – Porter Corner NY) author, librarian, film editor, title writer, screenwriter, movie executive, censor representative

Ann[a] Haven Morgan (06 may 1882 –05 jun 1966 | Waterford CT – South Hadley MA) author, ecologist, zoologist

Ida Barney (06 nov 1886 – 07 mar 1982 | New Haven CT – New Haven CT) author, birder, professor, astronomer, mathematician, president of New Haven Bird Club, known for 22 volumes of astrometric measurements of 150,000 stars

Helen Hoyt Lyman (22 jan 1887 – 02 aug 1972 | Norwalk CT – St Helena CA) poet

Laura Wheeler Waring (16 may 1887 – 03 feb 1948 | Hartford CT – Philadelphia PA)  artist, art educator, Harlem Renaissance portrait painter

Eleanor [Nelly] Bertine (22 jun 1887 – 03 jan 1968 | New Haven CT – New Milford CT) author, doctor, pioneering Jungian depth psychologist

Beatrice Fox Auerbach (07 jul 1887 – 29 nov 1968 | Hartford CT – Hartford CT) innovative merchandiser, civic-minded philanthropist

Alice D. Snyder (29 oct 1887 – 17 feb 1943 | Middletown CT – Poughkeepsie NY) author, academic

Nina Wilcox Putnam (28 nov 1888 – 08 mar 1962 | New Haven CT – Cuernavaca, Mexico) novelist, playwright, screenwriter

1890s

Gertrude Chandler Warner (16 apr 1890 – 29 aug 1979 | Putnam CT – Putnam CT) serial children’s novelist, authored the Box Car Children

Katherine Garrison Chapin Biddle (04 sep 1890 – 30 dec 1977 | Waterford CT – Devon PA) poet, essayist, lecturer, civil rights activist

Cornelia Van Auken Chapin (07 aug 1893 – 04 dec 1972 | Waterford CT – Lakeville CT) sculptor, animalier, known for stone models of birds and animals

Clare Eames (05 aug 1896 – 08 nov 1930 | Hartford CT – London UK) actress, stage director

Helen C. White (26 nov 1896 – 07 jun 1967 | New Haven CT – Norwood MA) novelist, essayist, educator, short fiction writer, aka The Purple Goddess, president of AAUW, first female full professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Rosa Ponselle (22 jan 1897 – 25 may 1981 | Meriden CT – Green Spring Junction MD) operatic dramatic soprano, one of The Ponzillo Sisters

Myra Kingsley (01 oct 1897 – 20 nov 1996 | Westport CT – Dade FL) author, astrologer

Virginia Carrington-Thomas (27 oct 1899 – Unknown | Bristol CT – Unknown) organist, composer, hymnist

1900s

Helen Hemingway Benton (17 sep 1901 – 03 may 1974 | North Haven CT – Phoenix AZ) author, essayist, historian, publisher

Barbara Eleanor McClintock (16 jun 1902 – 02 sep 1992 | Hartford CT – Huntington NY) scientist, cytogeneticist, Nobel Prize Winner

Katharine Brush (15 aug 1902 – 10 jun 1952 | Middletown CT – New York NY) novelist, short story writer, autobiographical author

Marietta Canty (30 sep 1905 – 01 jul 1986 | Hartford CT – Hartford CT) actress, humanitarian, social / political activist

Eleanor Ruth Rosenfield Estes (09 may 1906 – 15 jul 1988 | West Haven CT – Hamden CT) children’s book author

Percy Maxim Lee (04 jul 1906 – 09 nov 2002 | Hartford CT – New London CT) political activist, 4-time president of League of Women Voters, founder-trustee League of Women Voters Education Fund

Katharine Houghton Hepburn (12 may 1907 – 29 jun 2003 | Hartford CT – Fenwick CT) iconic actress, autobiographical author

Ann Lane Petry (12 oct 1908 – 28 apr 1997 | Old Saybrook CT – Old Saybrook CT) novelist,  nonfiction author, newspaper reporter

1910s

Anna Sokolow (09 feb 1910 – 29 mar 2000 | Hartford CT – New York NY) modern dancer, choreographer, Actors Studio co-founder

Ruth Berman-Harris (03 nov 1916 – 23 apr 2013 | New Haven CT – Peoria AZ) musician, composer, arranger, music educator, jazz / classical harpist

Elyse Knox (14 dec 1917 – 15 feb 2012 | Hartford CT – Los Angeles CA) model, actress, fashion designer, née Elsie Lillian Kornbrath

Fay Honey Knopp (15 aug 1918 – 10 aug 1995 | Bridgeport CT – Shoreham VT) artist, author, Quaker, gardener, folk singer, civil rights activist, sexual abuse prevention expert, founded crime prevention educational program

1920s

Eileen Farrell (13 feb 1920 – 23 mar 2002 | Willimantic CT – Park Ridge NJ) voice teacher, classical / popular music soprano, musical radio show host, autobiographical author

Olga Zatorsky Hirshhorn (26 apr 1920 – 03 oct 2015 | Greenwich CT –  Naples FL) modern art collector, art museum benefactor

Helen Warren Langley (05 sep 1924 – 11 apr 1980 | Connecticut US – Washington DC) editor, CIA National Basic Intelligence Factbook

Sybil Bailey Stockdale (25 nov 1924 – 10 oct 2015 | New Haven CT – Coronado CA) co-memoirist, husband prisoner of war in Vietnam, co-founder / national coordinator of National League of Families, advocate for humane treatment of prisoners of war

Esther Arvilla Harrison Hopkins (18 sep 1926 – Stamford CT) biophysicist, research chemist, environmental attorney, first African-American elected to Framingham (MA) Board of Selectman

Lorraine Rita Moran Warren (31 jan 1927 – 18 apr 2019 | Bridgeport CT – Monroe CT) author, paranormal investigator

Lucine Amara (01 mar 1927 – Hartford CT) operatic soprano, born Armaganian, Armenian-American, artistic director, master class teacher

Teresa Stich Randall (24 dec 1927 – 17 jul 2007 | Hartland CT – Vienna, Austria) operatic soprano, concert artist

Gianna d’Angelo (18 nov 1929 – 27 dec 2013 | Hartford CT – Mint Hill NC) operatic coloratura soprano, voice teacher / professor, née Jane Angelovich

Ann Burgess Ford Hopps (29 jan 1928 – 25 oct 2015 | Rowayton CT – Camden ME) artist, birder, sailor, kayaker, nature lover, found object artist, environmental activist

1930s

Betty Woodman (14 may 1930 – 03 jan 2018 | Norwalk CT – New York NY) innovative ceramic artist, former production potter, aka Mother of Ceramics

Maureen Howard (28 jun 1930 – Bridgeport CT) writer, editor, autobiographical author

Merle Goldman (12 mar 1931 – New Haven CT) author, scholar, historian, professor emerita, human rights activist, history of modern Chinese specialist

Elizabeth Atkinson Rash Brown (16 feb 1932 – West Cornwall CT) author, medieval scholar, professor emerita

Lee Venora (16 feb 1932 – Bridgeport CT) operatic soprano, musical theatre actress, born Elena Sinaguglia

Virginia Walsh Furtwangler (16 dec 1932 – Hartford CT) American-Canadian, short fiction writer, non-fiction author, pen name: Ann Copeland

Corinne Whitaker (31 aug 1934 – Stamford CT) author, lecturer, imagist, digital artist, digital sculptor

Edna Ann Proulx (22 aug 1935 – Norwich CT) novelist, journalist, short story writer, pen names: Annie Proulx, E. Annie Proulx, and E.A. Proulx

Rita Golden Gelman (02 jul 1937 – Bridgeport CT) children’s book author, adult travel writer

1940s

Mary Loretta [Mariette] Hartley (21 jun 1940 – Weston CT) character actress, suicide prevention activist, autobiographical author

Bonnie G. Smith (30 jun 1940 – Bridgeport CT) author, feminist, historian, women’s history activist

Abigail Heyman (01 aug 1942 – 28 may 2013 | Danbury CT – Manhattan NY) author, feminist, photographer, photojournalist, co-founded Archives Pictures Inc, first US woman invited into photographer’s collective Magnum Photos

Louise Shaffer (05 jul 1942 – Woodbridge CT) author, actress, scriptwriter, coloratura soprano

Betsey Johnson (10 aug 1942 – Wethersfield CT) fashion designer

Claire Porter (23 dec 1942 – New Britain CT) author, dancer, dance educator, comedienne, choreographer

Mary McGarry Morris (10 feb 1943 – Meriden CT) novelist, playwright, short story author

Susan Davenny-Wyner (17 oct 1943 – New Haven CT) conductor, operatic soprano, professor of music

Katharine Houghton Grant (10 mar 1945 – Hartford CT) actress, playwright, translator

Esther Rome (08 sep 1945 – 24 jun 1995 | Norwich CT – Somerville MA) author, women’s health advocate

Reeve Morrow Lindbergh (02 oct 1945 – Connecticut US) author, farmer, former teacher, children’s book writer, memoirist, member of famous Lindbergh family

Martha Patterson Coolidge (17 aug 1946 – New Haven CT) television director, screenwriter, film editor / director / producer

Ruth Whipple Crocker (10 dec 1946 – Mystic CT) author, essayist, memoirist

Donna Lopiano (11 sep 1946 – Stamford CT) author, consultant, Title IX advocate, founder / president of Sports Management Resources, former CEO of Women’s Sports Foundation

Glenn Close (19 mar 1947 – Greenwich CT) singer, actress, film producer

Caroline B. Cooney (10 may 1947 – Greenwich CT) horror, mystery, romance, suspense young adult author

Ariel Maria Dougherty (21 may 1947 – Danbury CT) author, independent filmmaker, feminist media activist / advocate, co-founder non-profit media arts organization Women Make Movies

Valerie Wilson Wesley (22 nov 1947 – Ashford CT) African-American editor, adult novelist, children’s book author

Bonnie Linda Caputo Tiburzi (31 aug 1948 – Connecticut US) aviator, memoirist, first female pilot for American Airlines / for any major US commercial airline, first woman in the world to earn Flight Engineer rating on turbo-jet aircraft

Jane Rachel Wattenberg (19 apr 1949 – Norwalk CT) artist, author, photographer, aka Mrs. Mustard, children’s book illustrator

Ann Louise Gittleman (27 jun 1949 – Hartford CT) author, columnist, nutritionist, public speaker

Anne Barnhardt Hendershott (12 jul 1949 – Waterbury CT) author, sociologist

Christine Dakin (25 aug 1949 – New Haven CT) dancer, teacher, director, proponent of Martha Graham repertory and technique

1950s

Jane Hammond (27 jun 1950 – Bridgeport CT) painter, printmaker, language artist

Chase Twichell (20 aug 1950 – New Haven CT) poet, professor, publisher, founded Ausable Press

Sarah Nettleton (01 oct 1950 – New Haven CT) author, architect, landscape designer

Melanie Chartoff (15 dec 1950 – New Haven CT) actress, voice artist, inventor, co-invented Grayway Rotating Drain (domestic-use graywater recycling device)

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend (04 jul 1951 – Greenwich CT) author, attorney, politician, former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, political family member

Orania Papazoglou (13 jul 1951 – 17 jul 2019 | Bethel CT – Watertown CT) mystery novelist, college professor, magazine editor, pen name: Jane Haddam

Chana Timoner (24 aug 1951 – 13 jul 1998 | New Haven CT – New Haven CT) born Carol Ann Surasky, anti-discrimination activist, first female rabbi in US Army to act as active duty Chaplain

Brenda Cullerton (11 apr 1952 – Norwalk CT) novelist, fashion writer, nonfiction author, creative consultant

Arielle Laure Maxime Sonnery Dombasle (27 apr 1952 – Hartford CT) French-American model, singer, actress, film director, screenwriter

Ilene Strizver (17 may 1953 – Westport CT) typographic author, designer, educator

Josefina Benedetti (17 sep 1953 – New Haven CT) composer, musicologist, choral director

Rosanna Warren (27 jul 1953 – Fairfield CT) poet, artist, scholar, professor

Cynthia [Cinny] Clare Kennard (28 dec 1953 – Norwalk CT) author, former broadcast journalist, professor of journalism, business and non-profit executive, executive director of The Annenberg Foundation and Annenberg PetSpace

Chao-ting Wu (24 jan 1954 – New Haven CT) professor, genetics researcher, molecular biologist, founding director of Personal Genetics Education Project (pgEd)

Elizabeth Evans May (09 jun 1954 – Hartford CT) author, activist, attorney, environmentalist, Canadian Green Party political leader

Nancy Ann Foster Munoz (08 sep 1954 – Wallingford CT) nurse, author, NJ state politician

Lucy Young (09 sep 1954 – Waterbury CT) pilot, US Naval officer, first woman to qualify in Naval Air Combat Maneuvering

Mary Margaret Hagedorn (12 sep 1954 – Connecticut US) marine biologist, research scientist, developed conservation program for coral species

Su Friedrich (12 dec 1954 – New Haven CT) avant-garde filmmaker

Michiko [Michi] Kakutani (09 jan 1955 – New Haven CT) Japanese-American critic, writer, NY Times Pulitzer Prize winning literary critic

Anne E. Preston (17 jun 1955 – Greenwich CT) author, economist, professor

Luanne Rice (25 sep 1955 – New Britain CT) novelist, environmentalist, advocate for families affected by domestic violence

Meg Casey (01 oct 1955 – 30 may 1985 | New Haven CT – New Haven CT) artist, disability rights activist, longest-lived person with progeria aging disorder

N. Lee Wood (15 nov 1955 – Hartford CT) crime / fantasy / science fiction / mainstream novelist

Ruth Ozeki (12 mar 1956 – New Haven CT) American-Canadian novelist, filmmaker, Buddhist priest, creative writing professor

Joyce Sidman (04 jun 1956 – Hartford CT) poet, children’s book author

Sheryl Lee Ralph (30 dec 1956 – Waterbury CT) author, singer, actress, HIV / adis activist, youngest female graduate (19 in 1972) from Rutgers University

Leslie McGrath (15 jun 1957 – Bridgeport CT) poet, educator, former editor online arts journal Drunken Boat

Heather Anne Thomas (08 sep 1957 – Greenwich CT) author, actress, screenwriter, political activist

Martha Trim Rainville (09 apr 1958 – New London CT) politician, counselor, retired US Air Force officer, former adjutant-general of the Vermont National Guard, first female adjutant-general of any US state

Martha Elizabeth Pollack (27 aug 1958 – Stamford CT) linguist, computer scientist, university president, artificial intelligence researcher

Candace Bushnell (01 dec 1958 – Glastonbury CT) author, columnist, tv producer

Carrie Brown (29 may 1959 – Connecticut US) novelist, professor

Rita Gunther McGrath (28 jul 1959 – New Haven CT) author, essayist, entrepreneur, management professor, strategic management scholar, developed concept of ‘discovery-driven planning’

Serene Jones (31 jul 1959 – New Haven CT) author, editor, essayist, first female president and former professor of Religion and Democracy at Union Theological Seminary, former chair of Gender, Woman, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University

Ann Temkin (26 dec 1959 – Torrington CT) author, curator, Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at NYC Museum of Modern Art