1820s
Julia Boggs Dent Grant (26 jan 1826 – 14 dec 1902 | St Louis MO – Washington DC) memoirist, US Presidential First Lady
1830s
Henrietta Maria Morse Chamberlain King (21 jul 1832 – 31 mar 1925 | Boonville MO – Kingsville TX) Texas rancher, philanthropist, public school builder
Clara Erskine Clement Waters (28 aug 1834 – 29 feb 1916 | St Louis MO – Boston MA) biographer, translator, world traveller, travel writer, arts history author
Mary Cunningham Logan (15 aug 1838 – 22 feb 1922 | Petersburg MO – Washington DC ) writer, editor, memoirist
Emma Crow Cushman (03 apr 1839 – 15 sep 1920 | St. Louis MO – Bar Harbor ME) poet, author, lesbian, focus on psychic experience research
Matilda Jane Sager Fultz (26 oct 1839 – 13 apr 1928 | St Joseph MO – Reseda CA) orphan, pioneer, folk figure, massacre survivor
1840s
Phoebe Wilson Couzins (08 sep 1842 – 06 dec 1913 | St Louis MO – St Louis MO) orator, author, suffragist, first female US law graduate, first female US Marshal
Phoebe Elizabeth Apperson Hearst (03 dec 1842 – 13 apr 1919 | Franklin MO – Pleasanton CA) feminist, suffragist, philanthropist, anthropology museum founder, founding member of National Congress of Mothers, benefactor / director of Golden Gate Kindergarten Association, co-founded all-girls National Cathedral School in Washington, DC
Sara Trevor Teasdale Filsinger (08 aug 1884 – 29 jun 1933 | St Louis MO – New York NY) lyric poet, first winner [1918] Columbia Poetry Prize [later became Pulitzer Prize]
1850s
Katherine O’Flaherty [Kate] Chopin (08 feb 1850 – 22 aug 1904 | St Louis MO – St Louis MO) novelist, feminist, short story writer
Martha Jane Cannary (01 may 1852 – 01 aug 1903 | Princeton MO – Terry SD) folk figure, memoirist, aka Calamity Jane, frontierswoman, professional scout
Ann Ralston James (25 jan 1853 – 06 jul 1944 | Independence MO – Excelsior Springs MO) American folk figure, wife of Western outlaw / reformed businessman Frank James
Nellie Grant Jones (04 jul 1855 – 30 aug 1922 | St Louis MO – Chicago IL) US Presidential daughter, social / literary figure
1860s
Helen Everett Peabody Grant (17 apr 1861 – 06 may 1910 | Keytesville Landing MO – Beausoleil, France) artist, painter
Jessie Love Smith Gaynor (17 feb 1863 – 20 feb 1921 | St Louis MO – Webster Groves MO) author, musician, children’s music composer
Mary Kenney O’Sullivan (08 jan 1864 – 18 jan 1943 | Hannibal MO – West Medford MA) bookbinder, dressmaker, settlement house activist, labor movement organizer, founded Women’s Trade Union League, factory Inspector for MA Board of Labor and Industries
Alice Bertha Kroeger (02 may 1864 – 31 oct 1909 | St. Louis MO – Philadelphia PA) author, lecturer, librarian, professor, student of Melvil Dewey, founder / director of library science program at Drexel University [1892-1909]
Lucy Foster Madison (08 apr 1865 – 16 mar 1932 | Kirksville MO – Hudson Falls NY) teacher, novelist, short fiction writer
Margaret Tobin Brown (18 jul 1867 – 26 oct 1932 | Hannibal MO – New York NY) Titanic survivor, socialite, social activist, philanthropist, aka Molly Brown, Maggie Brown, and The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Minnie Mancelona [Tip] Andress Pratt (28 mar 1869 – 1962 | Missouri US – Petoskey MI) teacher, namesake of Mancelona MI, early settler family member
1870s
Lugenia Burns Hope (19 feb 1871 – 14 aug 1947 | St Louis MO – Nashville TN) social reformer, civil rights activist, community organizer, Atlanta Neighborhood Union founder / director
Bessie Potter Vonnoh (17 aug 1872 – 08 mar 1955 | St Louis MO – New York NY) sculptor, garden fountain creator
Blanche Adele Ostertag (27 aug 1872 – 13 nov 1925 | St. Louis MO – New York NY) artist, illustrator, decorative painter
Berenice Crumb Wyer (05 oct 1873 – unknown | St. Louis MO – unknown) pianist, composer, lecturer, art song writer, composed for piano / organ / violin
Anne Shannon Monroe (29 oct 1873 – 18 oct 1942 | Bloomington MO – Oswego OR) author, biographer, lecturer, newspaper editor, magazine writer
Mary Rowena [Rena] Maverick Green (10 feb 1874 – 29 nov 1962 | Sedalia MO – San Antonio TX) editor, sculptor, suffragist, memoirist, publisher, watercolorist, social activist, one of first women on San Antonio School Board, co-founder / first president of San Antonio Conservation Society
Florence Ann Morris (05 mar 1876 – 03 sep 1947 | Nevada MO – Roswell NM) portrait, landscape artist
Nellie Tayloe Ross (29 nov 1876 – 19 dec 1977 | St Joseph MO – Washington DC) speaker, politician, magazine writer, first US elected female governor
Emily Newell Blair (09 jan 1877 – 03 aug 1951 | Joplin MO – Alexandria VA) author, feminist, suffragist, Women’s Committee historian, MO suffrage publication editor, co-founded League of Women Voters, principal founder Woman’s National Democratic Club, first female national vice-chair US Democratic party
Irma Starkloff Rombauer (30 oct 1877 – 14 oct 1962 St Louis MO – St Louis MO) cookbook writer, American classic Joy of Cooking author
Edna Fischel Gellhorn (18 dec 1878 – 24 sep 1970 | St Louis MO – St Louis MO) suffragist, social reformer, founder / leader League of Women Voters
1880s
Alice Corbin Henderson (16 apr 1881 – 18 jul 1949 | St Louis MO – Santa Fe NM) poet, author, museum curator, poetry journal editor
Anne Bauchens (02 feb 1882 – 07 may 1967 | St Louis MO – Woodland Hills CA) film editor, Academy Award for Film Editing, first woman to win an Oscar for film editing
Hazel Hunter Handforth (12 sep 1883 – c. 1957 | Huntsville MO – Central Islip NY) suffragist, homesteader, Greenwich Village restaurateur
Ola Elizabeth Winslow (05 jan 1885 – 27 sep 1977 | Grant City MO – Damariscotta ME) author, historian
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace [Bess] Truman (13 feb 1885 – 18 oct 1982 | Independence MO – Independence MO) social activist, known anti-Semitic, US Presidential First Lady and Vice-Presidential Second Lady, longest-lived First Lady and Second Lady in US history
Zoe Byrd Akins (30 oct 1886 – 29 oct 1958 | Humansville MO- Los Angeles CA) poet, novelist, playwright, screenwriter
Allie Mae Carpenter (04 jan 1887 – 02 jul 1978 | Prairie Home MO – Denver CO) artist, etcher, oil painter, pastellist, printmaker, tapestry artist, watercolorist, china painter, art educator, aka A.M. Carpenter, interior designer / decorator
Marianne Craig Moore (15 nov 1887 – 05 feb 1972 | Kirkwood MO – New York NY) poet, Pulitzer Prize in Poetry recipient
Ada E. Schnitzer Purpus (22 nov 1887 – unknown | Hannibal MO – unknown) civic activist, club woman, owner / manager of housekeeping cottages, postmaster of Laguna Beach CA, president of Laguna Beach Chamber of Commerce
1890s
Lucile McVey Drew (18 apr 1890 – 03 nov 1925 | Sedalia MO – Los Angeles CA) actress, knitter, comedian, director, producer, screenwriter, aka Jane Morrow, Mrs. Sidney Drew
Elizabeth Hadley Richardson Hemingway (09 nov 1891 – 23 jan 1979 | St Louis MO – Lakeland FL) pianist, literary figure, first wife to Ernest Hemingway
Pauline Gracia Beery Mack (19 dec 1891 – 22 oct 1974 | Norborne MO – Denton TX) author, chemist, home economist, college administrator, nutrition / radiation / bone density research expert
Agnes Smedley (23 feb 1892 – 06 may 1950 | Osgood MO – Oxford UK) author, journalist, biographer, spy / triple agent, autobiographical novelist, women’s rights / birth control / children’s welfare activist
Lorraine Collett Petersen (09 dec 1892 – 30 mar 1983 | Kansas City MO – Fresno CA) nurse, restaurateur, nursing home owner, original Sun-Maid Raisin Girl
Fannie Frank Cook (03 oct 1893 – 25 aug 1949 | St Charles MO – St Louis MO) poet, novelist, journalist, short story writer, speechwriter, social / civil rights activist
Frances Lockridge (10 jan 1896 – 19 feb 1963 | Saint Joseph MO – Tryon NC) serial mystery fiction co-author
Jane Novak (12 jan 1896 – 01 feb 1990 | St Louis MO – Woodland Hills CA) silent film actress, cookbook author
Gladys Swarthout Chapman (25 dec 1897 – 07 jul 1969 | Deepwater MO – Florence, Italy) novelist, memoirist, film actress, operatic mezzo soprano
Marion Telva (26 dec 1897 – 23 oct 1962 | St Louis MO – Norwalk CT) German-American operatic contralto
Mary Margaret McBride (16 nov 1899 – 07 apr 1976 | Paris MO – West Shokan NY) reporter, journalist, radio writer / interview host, aka First Lady of Radio, cookbook encyclopedia author / editor
1900s
Isadora Bennett Reed (21 jul 1900 – 08 feb 1980 | Canton MO – New York NY) essayist, journalist, theatre founder / manager, dance publicity agent, pen name Weylan Morgan
Margaret Doolin Utinsky (26 aug 1900 – 30 aug 1970 | St Louis MO – Lakewood CA) nurse, author, aka Miss U, POW activist, WWII undercover agent, US Medal of Freedom recipient
Leonor Kretzer Sullivan (21 aug 1902 – 01 sep 1988 | St Louis MO – St Louis MO) educator, politician, authored Food Stamp program, first Missouri Congresswoman
Henrietta Hill Swope (26 oct 1902 – 24 nov 1980 | St. Louis MO – Pasadena CA) professor, philanthropist, oral historian, astronomer, focus on variable stars
Katharine Woolf Kuh (15 jul 1904 – 10 jan 1994 | St. Louis MO – New York NY) author, curator, art critic, art historian, art dealer, first woman curator of European art and sculpture at Art Institute of Chicago
Helen Duhamel (26 nov 1904 – 08 nov 1991 | Windsor MO – Rapid City SD) pioneering radio / television broadcaster, businesswoman, first female president US state broadcasting association
Emily Hahn (14 jan 1905 – 18 feb 1997 | St Louis MO – New York NY) Chinese-American author, essayist, journalist, early feminist, short fiction writer
Marion Nevada Talley (20 dec 1906 – 03 jan 1983 | Nevada MO – Beverly Hills CA) operatic coloratura soprano, radio music program host, youngest woman to debut at Metropolitan Opera
Irene Barnes Taeuber (25 dec 1906 – 24 feb 1974 | Meadville MO – Princeton NJ) author, educator, essayist, demographer, anthropologist, directed US Census Library Project, edited Princeton University’s Population Index
Kathryn Kuhlman (09 may 1907 – 20 feb 1976 | Concordia MO – Tulsa OK) author, evangelist, faith healer
Margaret Craver (11 oct 1907 – 22 nov 2010 | Kansas City MO – Cambridge MA) artist, author, arts educator, metalwork artist, known for jewelry and holloware
Margery Kimball Clifford (20 apr 1908 – 14 apr 2000 | St Louis MO – Bethesda MD) cookbook author
Martha Gellhorn (08 nov 1908 – 15 nov 1998 | St Louis MO – London UK) novelist, journalist, travel writer
1910s
Dorothy Johnson Vaughn (20 sep 1910 – 10 nov 2008 | Kansas City MO – Hampton VA) human computer, mathematician, first female African-American supervisor of West Area Computers at Langley Research Center
Velda Johnston (31 may 1912 – 03 jan 1997 | Prosperity MO – Palm Desert CA) aka Veronica Jason, Gothic romance / suspense novelist
Anna J. Harrison (23 dec 1912 – 08 aug 1998 | Benton City MO – Holyoke MA) author, chemist, professor
Clara Stanton Jones (14 may 1913 – 30 sep 2012 | St. Louis MO – Oakland CA) librarian, director of Detroit Public Library, first African-American director of major US city library, first African-American president of the ALA
Lynne [Angel] Cooper Harvey (04 oct 1913 – 03 may 2008 | St Louis MO – River Forest IL) tv / radio producer, philanthropist, aka The First Lady of Radio
Rebekah [Betty] West Harkness (17 apr 1915 – 17 jun 1982 | St Louis MO – Manhattan NY) sculptor, composer, dance patron, philanthropist
Mary Marshall Metcalfe Rexford (22 may 1915 – 02 mar 1996 | St Louis MO – Chesterfield MO) memoirist, WWII Red Cross canteen worker, first woman to land at Normandy
Claire Marie Wick (16 jul 1915 – 07 jul 1987 | Fredericktown MO – Springfield IL) religious sister, music instructor, music therapy pioneer, founded nonprofit social service agency Triniteam, developed clean water projects in Kenya
Mary Louise Rhodes (05 apr 1916 – 26 jun 1967 | Clinton MO – Midland TX) petroleum geologist
Phyllis Cerf Wagner Fraser (13 apr 1916 – 24 nov 2006 | Kansas City MO – New York NY) journalist, children’s book publisher / founder, born Helen Brown Nichols, co-founder of Beginner Books
Jean Rouverol (08 jul 1916 – 24 mar 2017 | St Louis MO – Wingdale NY) author, actress, memoirist, biographer, screenwriter
Jane Wyman (05 jan 1917 – 10 sep 2007 | Saint Joseph MO – Rancho Mirage CA) artist, singer, dancer, painter, actress, philanthropist, born Sarah Jane Mayfield, first wife of former US President Ronald Reagan
Frances Crowe (15 mar 1919 – 27 aug 2019 | Carthage MO – Northampton MA) pacifist, peace activist, anti-nuclear activist, war tax evader, co-founded Traprock Peace Center, conscientious objector advocate / counsellor, founded a chapter of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
Julia Hall Bowman Robinson (08 dec 1919 – 30 jul 1985 | St Louis MO – Oakland CA) author, mathematician, political activist
1920s
Shelley Schrift Winters (18 aug 1920 – 14 jan 2006 | St. Louis MO – Beverly Hills CA) film / television / theatre actress, autobiographical author
Kathryn [Kitty] Hach-Darrow (20 oct 1922 – 04 jun 2020 | Bucklin MO – Loveland CO) chemist, aviator, water quality researcher, philanthropist, first female director American Water Works
Deloris Florine [Stanton] Forbes (10 jul 1923 – 22 oct 2013 | Kansas City MO – Sanford FL) crime reporter, mystery novelist, pen names: Tobias Wells, DeLoris S. Forbes
Mary Margaret Truman Daniel (17 feb 1924 – 29 jan 2008 | Independence MO – Chicago IL) singer, biographer, mystery novelist, autobiographical author
Sarah Caldwell (06 mar 1924 – 23 mar 2006 | Maryville MO – Portland ME) child prodigy, musician, memoirist, impresario, stage director, opera conductor
Ella Jenkins (06 aug 1924 – St Louis MO) actress, educator, musician, singer-songwriter, children’s music specialist, aka First Lady of Children’s Folk Song
Phyllis McAlpin Tewart Schlafly (15 aug 1924 – 15 aug 2016 | St Louis MO – St Louis MO) author, lawyer, speaker, publisher, anti-feminist, anti-abortionist, newspaper columnist, archconservative activist
Betty Jean Jennings Bartik (27 dec 1924 – 23 mar 2011 | Gentry MO – Poughkeepsie NY) inventor, technical publisher, computer software inventor / innovator / programmer, first all-electronic digital computer [ENIAC] co-developer
Margaret Ellen Towner (19 mar 1925 – Columbia MO) mentor, religious leader, former director of Christian education, first female ordained minister of Presbyterian Church USA [PCUSA]
Marylou Whitney (24 dec 1925 – 19 jul 2019 | Kansas City MO – Saratoga Springs NY) socialite, philanthropist, horse breeder, founded Marylou Whitney Stables, born Marie Louise Schroeder
Mary Jacqueline Simon [Jackie] Moore (19 mar 1926 – 11 apr 2002 | Hannibal MO – Strasburg VA) poet, author, memoirist, WWII DuPont chemist
Bonnie Leman (28 sep 1926 – 04 sep 2010 | Purdin MO – Arvada CO) author, teacher, freelance writer, Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine founder / publisher, international quilting arts activist
Joan Ceciel Quigley (10 apr 1927 – 21 oct 2014 | Kansas City MO – San Francisco CA) astrologer, memoirist, US Presidential First Lady’s astrological consultant
Betsy Ancker-Johnson (29 apr 1927 – 02 jul 2020 | St. Louis MO – Austin TX) engineer, inventor, plasma physicist, research focus on instabilities in plasmas in solids, invented gigacycle range signal generator, fourth woman elected to National Academy of Engineering, first female Presidential appointee to US Department of Commerce
Kate Coscarelli (06 jul 1927 – 25 aug 1999 | St Louis MO – Century City CA) novelist, motion picture production designer, born Shirley Mae Tyer
Emma Lou Diemer (24 nov 1927 – Kansas City MO) hymnist, keyboard artist, voice / chorus / keyboard / orchestra / chamber ensemble / electronic media composer
1930s
Natalie Sue Miller (07 mar 1934 – 29 may 2017 | Kansas City MO – Denver CO) author, counselor, fashion model, autobiographical author, breast cancer survivor / activist, founded Sue Miller Day of Caring non-profit for cancer education / awareness
Jane Dee Hull (08 aug 1935 – 16 apr 2020 | Kansas City MO – Phoenix AZ) politician, educator, 20th Governor of Arizona, women’s groups activist / advocate
Edie Huggins (14 aug 1935 – 29 jul 2008 | St. Joseph MO – Philadelphia PA) African-American reporter, journalist, broadcaster, longest tv news tenure in Philadelphia
Colleen J. McElroy (31 oct 1935 – St Louis MO) poet, editor, memoirist, short fiction author
Sylvia Celeste Browne (19 oct 1936 – 20 nov 2013 | Kansas City MO – San Jose CA) author, psychic, spiritual medium
Grace Melzia Bumbry (04 jan 1937 – St Louis MO) soprano / mezzo-soprano operatic singer
Felicia Weathers (13 aug 1937 – St Louis MO) operatic soprano, concert singer, voice / vocal technique teacher
Dana Ulery (02 jan 1938 – East St Louis MO) author, computer scientist, pioneering expert in scientific computer applications
Iris Johansen (07 apr 1938 – St. Louis MO) crime / romance / suspense fiction novelist
Maxine Moore Carr Waters (15 aug 1938 – St. Louis MO) politician, social / civil rights activist, Community Build and Black Women’s Forum co-founder
Lynn Schusterman (21 jan 1939 – Kansas City MO) philanthropist, Jewish arts / culture / education supporter, chair / co-founder Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation
Diana Sidehoff Natalicio (25 aug 1939 – St. Louis MO) Fulbright Scholar, modern language professor, academic administrator, president of University of Texas at El Paso [UTEP]
1940s
DeeDee Halleck (05 jan 1940 – St Louis MO) author, media activist, Paper Tiger Television founder, Deep Dish Satellite Network co-founder, Professor Emerita in UC San Diego Department of Communication
Marsha Mason (03 apr 1942 – St Louis MO) actress, film director
Carolyn Janice [C. J.] Cherryh (01 sep 1942 – St Louis MO) novelist, essayist, high school teacher, sci-fi / fantasy fiction author
Shere Hite (02 nov 1942 – 09 sep 2020 | Saint Joseph MO – London UK) American-born German author, feminist, sex educator, female sexuality researcher, born Shirley Diana Gregory
Manon Cleary (14 nov 1942 – 26 nov 2011 | St Louis MO – Washington DC) photo-realist figurative painter
Jill Churchill (11 jan 1943 – Kansas City MO) mystery writer, non-fiction historical author, born Janice Young Brooks
Mary Frann (27 feb 1943 – 23 sep 1998 | St Louis MO – Beverly Hills CA) actress, social activist, homeless women’s charitable / outreach worker, born Mary Frances Luecke
Alyce Faye Wattleton (08 jul 1943 – St. Louis MO) nurse, author, news commentator, feminist activist, youngest and first African-American president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Suzan Pitt (11 jul 1943 – 16 jun 2019 | Kanasas City MO – Taos NM) artist, painter, animated filmmaker, surreal / psychological themes
Norma Van Surdam Graham (08 aug 1944 – St. Louis MO) psychologist, neuroscientist, professor of psychology, specialist in visual perception
Nancy Pickard (19 sep 1945 – Kansas City MO) journalist, serial mystery novelist, short story writer, non-fiction author
Alison Becker Chase (03 jan 1946 – Eolia MO) dancer, teacher, Guggenheim Fellow, site-specific performance artist, dance theater founder / artistic director
Susan Morrisey Livingstone (13 jan 1946 – Carthage MO) former Acting US Secretary of the Navy, first female Navy Secretary in US history, policy management consultant, advocate to end abusive interrogation techniques at US Naval Base Guantanamo Bay
Margaret Anne LeMone (21 feb 1946 – Columbia MO) author, atmospheric scientist, specializes in precipitation / cloud development / storm structure
Marilyn March vos Savant (11 aug 1946 – St Louis MO) author, playwright, memoirist, magazine columnist
Mary Jo Bang (22 oct 1946 – Waynesville MO) poet
Darlene Clark Hine (07 feb 1947 – Morley MO) author, professor, Africa-American history expert scholar
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (23 mar 1947 – Kansas City MO) science-fiction / fantasy novelist
Linda Joyce Bloodworth-Thomason (15 apr 1947 – Poplar Bluff MO) director, screenwriter, film producer
Paula Joan Caplan (07 jul 1947 – Springfield MO) author, activist, social / human rights advocate, clinical / research psychologist
Betty Thomas (27 jul 1947 – St. Louis MO) actress, film / television director, born Betty Lucille Nienhauser
Mary Elizabeth Bray Pipher (21 oct 1947 – Springfield MO) author, clinical psychologist, political activist
Terry Lynn Karl (21 nov 1947 – St. Louis MO) author, academic, professor of Latin American Studies and Political Science, first woman to earn doctorate in biochemistry from University of Wisconsin, first female scientist to receive Jewish Federation of St. Louis Woman of Valor Award
Margaret Edith Weis (16 mar 1948 – Independence MO) sci-fi / fantasy novelist
Stephanie Seneff (20 apr 1948 – Columbia MO) author, senior research scientist, focus in Spoken Language Systems group
Barbara Bodine (28 aug 1948 – St Louis MO) author, academic, diplomat, heads Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative [SINSI]
Joanna Brouk (20 feb 1949 – 28 apr 2017 | St Louis MO – San Diego CA) electronic music composer
Leslie Feinberg (01 sep 1949 – 15 nov 2014 | Kansas City MO – Syracuse NY) author, speaker, Communist, transgender activist
1950s
Candace O’Connor (27 jan 1950 – St Louis MO) freelance writer / editor
Cristina Ferrare (08 feb 1950 – St Louis MO) actress, author, talk show host
Peggy Pettitt (08 feb 1950 – St Louis MO) actor, dancer, teacher, playwright, storyteller
Jane Ellen Ibur (21 oct 1950 – St. Louis MO) poet, arts educator, literacy activist, former co-anchor / co-producer of literary radio show Literature for the Halibut, founder / poet educator of innovative Community Arts Training (CAT), facilitates writing workshops Pets and Writers Ink for students / veterans / prisoners
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar (21 dec 1950 – Kansas City MO) modern dancer, modern dance teacher / choreographer, Urban Bush Women dance company founder
Donna Baier Stein (05 jan 1951 – Kansas City MO) poet, editor, author, copywriter, publisher, short fiction writer
Martha Ackmann (11 feb 1951 – St. Louis MO) author, journalist
Naomi Shihab Nye (12 mar 1952 – St Louis MO) Palestinian-American poet, editor, novelist, songwriter, short fiction author
Nancy Lynn Snyderman (26 mar 1952 – St Louis MO) author, physician, former broadcast journalist
Linda Maxine Godwin (02 jul 1952 – Cape Girardeau MO) scientist, professor, retired NASA astronaut
Faye Marder Kellerman (31 jul 1952 – St. Louis MO) mystery novelist, dental surgeon, practicing Orthodox Jew
Freada Kapor Klein (26 aug 1952 – Kansas City MO) author, venture capitalist, philanthropist, social policy researcher
Kathleen Krull (29 jul 1952 – Fort Leonard Wood MO) editor, biographer, children’s book author
Kim Victoria Wright Abeles (28 aug 1952 – Richmond Heights MO) activist artist, feminist, interdisciplinary artist, Guggenheim Fellowship laureate
Melissa Ann Pinney (12 feb 1953 – St Louis MO) author, feminist, photographer, focus on women’s and girls’ social lives / emerging identities
Jennifer Roberson (26 oct 1953 – Kansas City MO) fantasy / historical novelist
Margaret Ann [Maggie] Williams (25 dec 1954 – Kansas City MO) campaign manager for Hillary Clinton, director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard University
Francesca Isabella Simon (23 feb 1955 – St. Louis MO) children’s author, American expatriate living in London
Rebecca Blank (19 sep 1955 – Columbia MO) essayist, non-fiction author, university chancellor, labor / low-income / commerce relations expert
Amy Alcott (22 feb 1956 – Kansas City MO) professional golfer, golf course designer
Vicki Mabrey (03 apr 1956 – St Louis MO) broadcast journalist
Melanie Morgan (08 dec 1956 – Kansas City MO) author, columnist, radio show host, political commentator
Kathleen Finneran (03 dec 1957 – St Louis MO) author, essayist, memoirist, professor, creative writing workshop leader
Kristina M. Johnson (07 may 1957 – St. Louis MO) academic, engineer, business executive, former government official, women’s STEM leadership / education advocate, Chancellor of SUNY, founded Enduring Hydro energy firm
Pamela H. Patsley (01 mar 1957 – St. Louis MO) businesswoman, executive chair of MoneyGram
Debra Di Blasi (27 may 1957 – Kirksville MO) author, publisher, screenwriter
Sally Hampton (29 jul 1958 – St. Louis MO) screenwriter, film producer
Linda Denise Blair (22 jan 1959 – St. Louis MO) actress, philanthropist, film producer, animal rights activist, founded Linda Blair WorldHeart Foundation
Janet Lynn Kavandi (17 jul 1959 – Carthage MO) chemist, veteran astronaut, Center Director at NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio