1730s
Jane Frazier [or Fraser] (01 jan 1735 – 14 apr 1815 | Winchester VA – Schellsburg PA) survivor, memoirist, captured / escaped Native Americans
1740s
1750s
1760s
Deborah Sampson Gannett (17 dec 1760 – 29 apr 1827 | Plympton MA – Sharon MA) diarist, memoirist, political activist, Continental soldier
Mary Lewis Kinnan (22 aug 1763 – 12 mar 1848 | Basking Ridge NJ – Basking Ridge NJ) pioneer, survivor, memoirist, Shawnee captive, sold to Delaware natives, rescued after three years’ captivity
Dolley Payne Todd Madison (20 may 1768 – 12 jul 1849 | North Carolina Province, British America – Washington DC) US Presidential First Lady, memoirist, letter correspondent
1770s
Johanna Graham Bethune (01 feb 1770 – 28 jul 1860 | Fort Niagara ON – New York NY) author, memoirist, social activist, leader in Sunday school education movement, founded Orphan Asylum Society and Society for the Relief of Poor Widows with Children
Leonora Sansay (11 dec 1773 – 12 nov 1821 | Philadelphia PA – Newent UK) novelist, painter, memoirist, political / literary figure, aka Mary Hassal, born Honora Davern, artificial flower-making business owner
Elizabeth Ann Seton (28 aug 1774 – 04 jan 1821 | New York NY – Emmitsburg MD) widow, mother, memoirist, sainted religious, Sisters of Charity founder
1780s
Jarena Lee (11 feb 1783 – 1855 | Cape May NJ – New Jersey US) memoirist, religious writer, autobiographical author, pioneering female traveling African Methodist Episcopal (AME) minister
Elleanor Eldridge (27 mar 1784 – c.1845 | Warwick RI – unknown) memoirist, landlord, property owner, pioneering African-American entrepreneur
1790s
Harriet Atwood Newell (10 oct 1793 – 30 nov 1812 | Haverhill MA – Port Louis MUS) memoirist, first wave US Christian missionary to India, Burma, and Mauritius
Frances Manwaring Caulkins (26 apr 1795 – 03 feb 1869 | New London CT – New London CT) writer, memoirist, historian
Lucy Goodale Thurston (29 oct 1795 – 13 oct 1876 | Marlborough MA – Honolulu HI) teacher, memoirist, letter correspondent, first Christian missionary wife in Hawaii
1800s
Sarah Anne Worthington King Peter (10 may 1800 – 06 feb 1877 | Chillicothe OH – Cincinnati OH) artist, memoirist, patron of arts, philanthropist, Civil War Union nurse, Catholic convert / activist, founded Philadelphia School of Design for Women [now Moore College of Art & Design]
Eunice Hale Waite Cobb (27 jan 1803 – 02 may 1880 | Kennebunk ME – East Boston MA) author, activist, memoirist, public speaker
Eliza Grew Jones (30 mar 1803 – 28 mar 1838 | Providence RI – Bangkok TH) memoirist, Biblical historian, American Baptist missionary to Burma and Siam, created first Siamese-English dictionary, invented Romanized script for writing Siamese language
Susanna Strickland Moodie (06 dec 1803 – 08 apr 1885 | Bungay UK – Toronto ON) English-Canadian poet, artist, novelist, memoirist, children’s author
Harriot Kezia Hunt (09 nov 1805 – 02 jan 1875 | Boston MA – Boston MA) memoirist, women’s right activist, pioneer female physician, first female to apply [and be denied] to Harvard Medical School
Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie (11 sep 1806 – 15 sep 1870 | Middletown CT – Amagansett NY) author, memoirist, Middle Western pioneer and historian
Mary Ann White Johnson (24 aug 1808 – 05 may 1872 | Westmoreland NH – New York NY) abolitionist, lecturer on physiology, matron of Sing Sing Prison, prison reform advocate, founding member of New England Non-Resistance Society
Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee (01 oct 1808 – 05 nov 1873 | Arlington VA – Lexington VA) editor, memoirist, Confederate Civil War family figure
1810s
Octavia Walton Le Vert (11 aug 1811 – 12 mar 1877 | Augusta GA – Augusta GA) author, socialite, social activist, memoirist, travel writer
Harriet Ann Jacobs (11 feb 1813 – 07 mar 1897 | Edenton NC – Washington DC) memoirist, abolitionist, speaker, reformer, escaped slave, African-American
Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta (11 nov 1815 – 23 mar 1891 | Bennington VT – New York NY) poet, critic, writer, teacher, socialite, literary circle figure, Barnard College co-founder, posthumous memoirist
Fidelia Fiske (01 may 1816 – 26 jul 1864 | Shelburne MA – Shelburne MA) memoirist, religious missionary, women’s educational activist, Mount Holyoke Seminary college teacher, founder / first principal of Nestorian Female Seminary in Persia [Iran]
Maria Monk (27 jun 1816 – 08 sep 1849 | Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu QC – Roosevelt Island NY) author, memoirist, religious sister, controversial Canadian folk figure, alleged infanticide / systemic sexual abuse in Catholic convent
Catherine Troutman Simmons Broshears Maynard (19 jul 1816 – 20 oct 1906 | Meade County KY – Seattle WA) folk figure, pioneer, memoirist, social activist, Seattle WA co-founder
Amelia Stewart Knight (01 jan 1817 – 25 jan 1898 | Boston MA – Vancouver WA) diarist, memoirist, Northwest Oregon Trail pioneer / settler
Emily Chubbuck Judson (22 0r 23 aug 1817 – 01 jun 1854 | Eaton NY – Hamilton NY) poet, writer, memoirist, missionary, aka Fanny Forester
Henrietta Hall Shuck (28 oct 1817 – 27 nov 1844 | Kilmarnock VA – Hong Kong HK) memoirist, letter correspondent, founded co-ed boarding school, Chinese girls’ education advocate, first female Baptist missionary to China, first Western female to live in Hong Kong
Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (c. 01 feb 1818 – c. 01 may 1907 | Dinwiddie County Court House VA – Washington DC) former slave, memoirist, First Lady’s seamstress, businesswoman
Elizabeth Van Lew (15 oct 1818 – 25 sep 1900 | Richmond VA – Richmond VA) diarist, memoirist, aka Crazy Bet, Civil War Union spy / ring leader, post-War postmistress
Elizabeth Payson Prentiss (26 oct 1818 – 13 aug 1878 | Portland ME – Dorset VT) author, hymnist, educator, memoirist
Sarah Eleanor Bayliss Royce (02 mar 1819 – 23 nov 1891 | Stratford-upon-Avon UK – Santa Rosa CA) diarist, author, pioneer, memoirist
Louise Amelia Knapp Clappe Smith (28 jul 1819 – 09 feb 1906 | Elizabeth NJ – Morristown NJ) author, memoirist, schoolteacher, letter correspondent, pen name: Dame Shirley
Ann Eliza Brainerd Smith (07 oct 1819 – 06 jan 1909 | St Albans VT – St Albans VT) poet, author, novelist, essayist, memoirist, honorary lieutenant colonel in Vermont Militia
1820s
Margaret Junkin Preston (19 may 1820 – 28 mar 1897 | Milton PA – Baltimore MD) poet, essayist, memoirist, Confederate, blind later in life
Mary Ashton Rice Livermore (19 dec 1820 – 23 may 1905 | Boston MA – Melrose MA) editor, author, essayist, journalist, memoirist, suffragist, newspaper founder, women’s biographer, Universalist minister, women’s rights activist, temperance advocate, Civil War Sanitary Commission member
Phoebe Yates Levy Pember (18 aug 1823 – 04 mar 1913 | Charleston SC – Pittsburgh PA) memoirist, medical pioneer, Civil War nurse, Confederate hospital administrator
Jessie Ann Benton Frémont (31 may 1824 – 27 dec 1902 | Rockbridge VA – Los Angeles CA) author, memoirist, abolitionist, political activist, short story writer
Virginia Caroline Tunstall Clay-Clopton (16 jan 1825 – 23 jan 1915 | Nash County NC – Gurley AL) author, memoirist, political wife, suffragist, United Daughters of the Confederacy member
Julia Boggs Dent Grant (26 jan 1826 – 14 dec 1902 | St Louis MO – Washington DC) memoirist, US Presidential First Lady
Eliza Allen Billings (27 jan 1826 – 1866 | Eastport ME – Eastport ME) memoirist, adventurer, disguised male soldier George Mead in Mexican-American War
Varina Banks Howell Davis (07 may 1826 – 16 oct 1906 | Natchez MS – New York NY) writer, memoirist, columnist, Confederate States First Lady, post-war reconciliation activist
Mary Elizabeth Wilson [M.E.W.] Sherwood (27 oct 1826 – 12 sep 1903 | Keene NH – Manhattan NY) poet, essayist, memoirist, travel / etiquette writer, autobiographical author
Amanda Akin Stearns (18 nov 1827 – 02 feb 1911 | Pawling NY – Pawling NY) author, US Civil War nurse, memoirist
Mary Ann Harris Gay (18 mar 1828 – 06 nov 1918 | Jones County GA – Decatur GA) poet, author, diarist, memoirist, US Confederate heroine
Kate Cumming (05 jun 1828 – 05 jun 1909 | Scotland UK – Birmingham AL) diarist, memoirist, Confederate nurse
Jane Cunningham Croly (19 dec 1829 – 23 dec 1901 | New York NY – Lakewood NJ) suffragist, memoirist, journalist, columnist, Sorosis women’s press club founder, General Federation of Women’s Clubs founder
1830s
Jane Stuart Woolsey (07 feb 1830 – 09 jul 1891 | Brooklyn NY – Fishkill NY) teacher, memoirist, Civil War Union nurse, field hospital superintendent
Sara Agnes Rice Pryor (19 feb 1830 – 15 feb 1912 | Hitesburg VA – Bloomfield NJ) author, memoirist, novelist, journal writer, fundraiser, preservationist, Civil War historian, social / community / women and children’s activist
Mary Anna Morrison Jackson (21 jul 1831 – 24 mar 1915 | Lincoln NC – Charlotte NC) author, memoirist, military / political wife, aka Widow of the Confederacy
Narcissa Clark Chisholm Owen (03 oct 1831 – 12 jul 1911 | Webbers Falls, Cherokee Nation – Washington DC) artist, educator, Cherokee, memoirist, painter, finger weaver, tapestry artist
Anna Harriet Edwards Leonowens (06 nov 1831 – 19 jan 1915 | Ahmednagar IND – Montreal QC) Canadian, teacher, folk figure, suffragist, memoirist, women’s activist, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design co-founder
Elizabeth Lyle Saxon (02 dec 1832 – 14 mar 1915 | Greenville TN – Memphis TN) speaker, memoirist, women’s rights activist, pioneer Southern suffrage leader
Georgeanna Muirson Woolsey Bacon (05 nov 1833 – 27 jan 1906 | Brooklyn NY – New Haven CT) nurse, author, memoirist, letter correspondent, Civil War Union nurse, co-founded Connecticut Training School for Nurses at New Haven Hospital
Annie Adams Fields (06 jun 1834 – 05 jan 1915 | Boston MA – Cambridge MA) author, diarist, memoirist, biographer, social reformer, philanthropist
Catherine Carney Sager Pringle (15 apr 1835 – 08 aug 1910 | Union County OH – Spokane WA) diarist, pioneer, memoirist, survivor
Elizabeth Newton Woolsey Howland (22 jul 1835 – 03 jul 1917 | New York NY – Newport RI) author, memoirist, Civil War Union nurse, Howland Circulating Library co-founder
Isabelle Walton Lusk (16 oct 1835 – 22 jan 1933 | Old Town ME – Sacramento CA) memoirist, national traveler, travel author
Rose Eytinge (21 nov 1835 – 20 dec 1911 | Philadelphia PA – Amityville NY) Jewish-American author, actress, memoirist, screenwriter
Miriam Florence Folline Squier Leslie (05 jun 1836 – 18 sep 1914 | New Orleans LA – New York NY) author, memoirist, publisher
Elizabeth Sager Helm (06 jul 1837 – 19 jul 1925 | Union County OH – Portland OR) survivor, memoirist, Oregon Trail Pioneer, orphaned twice: biological parents on The Trail [1844] and adoptive parents on The Trail in Whitman Massacre [1847]
Eliza Spalding Warren (11 aug 1837 – 21 jun 1919 | Spalding ID – Coeur d’Alene ID) pioneer, memoirist [daughter of Eliza Hart Spalding]
Mary Cunningham Logan (15 aug 1838 – 22 feb 1922 | Petersburg MO – Washington DC ) writer, editor, memoirist
Katherine Abbott [Kate] Sanborn (10 jul 1839 – 09 jul 1917 | Hanover NH – Medway MA) poet, author, teacher, humorist, memoirist, public speaker, calendar publisher, children’s school founder, newspaper / magazine correspondent
1840s
Cornelia Hancock (08 feb 1840 – 31 dec 1927 | Hancock’s Bridge NJ – Atlantic City NJ) author, memoirist, social activist, Civil War Union nurse, educator, school founder
Flora Adams Darling (25 jul 1840 – 06 jan 1910 | Lancaster NH – New York NY) author, memoirist, founding president US Daughters of 1812, born Sophronia A. Adams
Eliza Frances Andrews (10 aug 1840 – 21 jan 1931 | Washington GA – Rome GA) diarist, botanist, essayist, educator, memoirist, textbook author, magazine writer
Eleanor Agnes Lee (27 feb 1841 – 15 oct 1873 | Arlington VA – Lexington VA) poet, diarist, memoirist, folk figure, Confederate military family daughter
Matilda Ann [Linda] Judson Richards (27 jul 1841 – 16 apr 1930 | West Potsdam NY – Boston MA) nurse, author, memoirist, nursing educator, first professional trained US nurse, established nursing schools in US and Japan, created first system for keeping individual medical records for hospitalized patients
Loreta Janeta Velazquez (26 jun 1842 – 26 jan 1923 | Havana, Cuba – Washington DC) memoirist, Confederate Civil War spy / soldier, aka Lieutenant Harry Buford, died as Loreta J. Beard at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital for the Insane
Clara Louise Kellogg (09 jul 1842 – 13 may 1916 | Sumterville SC – New Hartford CT) memoirist, operatic prima donna, opera company founder / director
Elizabeth Benton [Lily] Frémont (15 nov 1842 – 28 may 1919 | Washington DC – Los Angeles CA) memoirist, letter correspondent, political family member
Eliza Poor Donner Houghton (08 mar 1843 – 19 feb 1922 | Springfield IL – Los Angeles CA) memoirist, massacre survivor
LaSalle Corbell Pickett (16 may 1843 – 22 mar 1931 | Nansemond VA – Richmond VA) US author, lecturer, biographer Civil War Confederate memoirist
Isabella Maria [Belle] Boyd (09 may 1844 – 11 jun 1900 | Martinsburg VA [now WV] – Kilbourne [now Wisconsin Dells] WI) spy, lecturer, memoirist, aka Cleopatra of the Secession, Siren of the Shenandoah
Olive Risley Seward (15 jul 1844 – 27 nov 1908 | Fredonia NY – Washington DC) memoirist, travel writer, founded Literary Society of Washington
Martha [Mattie] Whitney Summerhayes (21 oct 1844 – 12 may 1926 | Nantucket MA – Schenectady NY) memoirist, travel writer, world traveler, pioneer Army wife, autobiographical author
Agnes Salm-Salm (25 dec 1844 – 21 dec 1912 | Franklin VT – Karlsruhe DEU) memoirist, war / political activist, US Civil War field nurse, Prussian Princess by marriage, born Agnes Elisabeth Winona Leclerc Joy
Myrtle Fillmore (06 aug 1845 – 06 oct 1931 | Pagetown OH – Lees Summit MO) author, memoirist, schoolteacher, New Thought practitioner, Unity Church co-founder, née Mary Caroline Page, aka Mother of Unity
Laura Askew Haygood (14 oct 1845 – 29 apr 1900 | Watkinsville GA – Shanghai CN) educator, missionary, memoirist, letter correspondent
Matilda [Tillie] Pierce Alleman (11 mar 1848 – 15 mar 1914 | Gettysburg PA – Philadelphia PA) memoirist, Civil War activist / participant / observer
Susie Baker King Taylor (06 aug 1848 – 06 oct 1912 | Liberty GA – Boston MA) memoirist, social activist, Civil War nurse, aka The Black Clara Barton
Maritcha Remond Lyons (25 oct 1848 – 28 jan 1929 | Brooklyn NY – Brooklyn NY) author, feminist, memoirist, civic leader, public educator, biographical essayist, childhood home part of Underground Railroad, first African-American student to graduate from Providence [RI] High School, second black female public school assistant principal, co-founded Women’s Loyal Union and White Rose Mission
1850s
Frances Xavier [Mother] Cabrini (15 jul 1850 – 22 dec 1917 | Sant’Angelo, Italy – Chicago IL) educator, missionary, memoirist, Catholic saint, Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart founder / director
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (20 may 1851 – 09 jul 1926 Lenox MA – New York NY) author, religious sister, memoirist, social worker, aka Mother Mary Alphonsa
Minnie Hauk (16 nov 1851 – 06 feb 1929 | New York NY – Lucerne, Switzerland) memoirist, operatic soprano, born Amalia Mignon Hauck
Martha Jane Cannary (01 may 1852 – 01 aug 1903 | Princeton MO – Terry SD) folk figure, memoirist, aka Calamity Jane, frontierswoman, professional scout
Grace Elizabeth King (29 nov 1852 – 12 jan 1932 | New Orleans LA – New Orleans LA) novelist, memoirist, biographer, literary / historical leader
Katrina Trask (30 may 1853 – 08 jan 1922 | Brooklyn NY – Saratoga Springs NY) poet, memoirist, playwright, philanthropist, co-founder of Yaddo artists’ retreat, aka Kate Nicholes Trask
Sara Delano Roosevelt (21 sep 1854 – 07 sep 1941 | Newburgh NY – Hyde Park NY) memoirist, mother of FDR, political family member, mother-in-law to Eleanor Roosevelt
Louisine Waldron Elder Havemeyer (28 jul 1855 – 06 jan 1929 | New York NY – New York NY) feminist, suffragist, memoirist, art collector, artist’s model, philanthropist, patron of American Impressionist Mary Cassatt
Elizabeth Gardiner Glendower Evans (28 feb 1856 – 12 dec 1937 | New Rochelle NY – Brookline MA) memoirist, social activist
Anna Elizabeth Klumpke (28 oct 1856 – 09 feb 1942 | San Francisco CA – San Francisco CA) artist, biographer, memoirist, portrait painter, autobiographical author
Josephine Meeker (28 jan 1857 – 20 dec 1882 | Ohio US – Colorado US) teacher, memoirist, physician, Ute tribe / Meeker Massacre captive / survivor
Henrietta McCormick Goodhart (22 apr 1857 – 1932 | Chicago IL – Langley Park MD) heiress, memoirist, managed McCormick-Goodhart Mansion on Langley Park Estate
Myrta Lockett Avary (07 dec 1857 – 14 feb 1946 | Halifax VA – Atlanta GA) author, journalist, memoirist
Lillian Nordica (12 dec 1857 – 10 may 1914 | Farmington ME – Jakarta IDN) memoirist, operatic dramatic soprano
Jessie Catherine Kinsley (26 mar 1858 – 10 feb 1938 | Oneida NY – Oneida NY) diarist, painter, folk artist, memoirist, letter correspondent, braided tapestry maker, Oneida Community member
1860s
Henrietta Szold (21 dec 1860 – 13 feb 1945 | Baltimore MD – Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine) Jewish-American author, memoirist, women’s US Zionist leader, Hadassah Women’s Organization founder
Josephine Sarah Marcus [Sadie] Earp (19 mar 1861 – 19 dec 1944 | New York NY – Los Angeles CA) actress, dancer, memoirist, folk figure, frontier adventurer, common-law wife of Wyatt Earp
Helen Herron [Nellie] Taft (02 jun 1861 – 22 may 1943 | Cincinnati OH – Washington DC) memoirist, US Presidential First Lady, patroness of music, planted / arranged first plantings of Japanese cherry trees gifted to Washington DC
Sara Luellen Miller (30 oct 1861 – 1936 | Oberlin OH – Tsinan CN) educator, memoirist, missionary, founded China’s first college for women [North China Union College for Women]
Vida Dutton Scudder (15 dec 1861 – 09 oct 1954 | Madurai IND – Wellesley MA) author, essayist, lecturer, professor, memoirist, autobiographer, social gospel movement / welfare activist
Loïe Fuller (15 jan 1862 – 01 jan 1928 | Fullersburg IL – Paris FR) dancer, memoirist, choreographer, free dance practitioner, stage lighting artist / inventor / patent holder
Anna Schoen-René (11 jan 1864 – 1942 | Berlin DEU – New York NY) German-American author, musician, memoirist, music teacher, entrepreneur, aka Godmother of Minnesota Orchestra, considered first woman to conduct an orchestra in the USA
Rebekah Bettelheim Kohut (09 sep 1864 – 11 aug 1951 | Kaschau HU -New York NY) memoirist, educational activist, president National Council of Jewish Women, national / international Jewish women’s welfare advocate
Elizabeth Garver Jordan (09 may 1865 – 24 feb 1947 | Milwaukee WI – New York NY) editor, novelist, memoirist, journalist, suffragist
Anne Walter Fearn (21 may 1865 – 28 apr 1939 | Holly Springs MS – Berkeley CA) physician, memoirist, missionary
Anna Farquhar Bergengren (23 dec 1865 – unknown | Brookville IN – unknown) editor, author, memoirist, journalist, foreign correspondent, pen name Margaret Allston
Lillian Heath Nelson (29 dec 1865 – 05 aug 1962 | Burnett Junction WI – Rawlins WY) memoirist, first female doctor in Wyoming, one of first female medical practitioners west of the Mississippi River
Johanna [Anne] Sullivan Macy (14 apr 1866 – 20 oct 1936 | Feeding Hills MA – Forest Hills NY) memoirist, childhood onset blindness, teacher / companion of Helen Keller
Laura Ingalls Wilder (07 feb 1867 – 10 feb 1957 | Pepin County WI – Mansfield MO) author, memoirist, pioneer settler, farm journalist, children’s book writer
Adelaide [Addie] Worth Bagley Daniels (01 may 1869 – 19 dec 1943 | Raleigh NC – Raleigh NC) writer, memoirist, suffragist leader, political family member, US delegate to Eighth Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance [1920]
Janet Scudder (27 oct 1869 – 09 jun 1940 | Terre Haute IN – Rockport MA) sculptor, memoirist, born Netta Deweze Frazee
Marie Dressler (09 nov 1869 – 28 jul 1934 | Cobourg ON- Santa Barbara CA) Canadian actress, memoirist
Ariadna Vladimirovna Tyrkova-Williams (13 nov 1869 – 12 jan 1962 | Saint Petersburg RU – Washington DC) editor, writer, feminist, fundraiser, journalist, memoirist, biographer, liberal politician, women’s rights activist, member of All-Russian Union for Women’s Equality, co-founded Russian Liberation Committee in London UK
Adella Prentiss Hughes (29 nov 1869 – 02 aug 1950 | Cleveland OH – Cleveland OH) pianist, impresario, memoirist, philanthropist, organized Cleveland Orchestra
1870s
Susan [Susie] Norris Fitkin (31 mar 1870 – 18 oct 1951 | Ely QC – Oakland CA) author, minister, memoirist, evangelist, founder / president of Women’s Foreign Missionary Society (now Nazarene Missions International), co-funded / co-founded numerous churches / hospitals / children’s care facilities
Florence [Daisy] Jaffray Harriman (21 jul 1870 – 31 aug 1967 | New York NY – Washington DC) diplomat, socialist, suffragist, memoirist, non-fiction author, social reformer / organizer
Edith Bolling Galt Wilson (15 oct 1872 – 28 dec 1961 | Wytheville VA – Washington DC) First Lady, memoirist, unofficial acting US President
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
Hallie Erminie Rives (02 may 1874 – 16 aug 1956 | Hopkinsville KY – New York NY) novelist, memoirist, married US Foreign Service Diplomat
Mary Heaton Vorse O’Brien (11 oct 1874 – 14 jun 1966 | New York NY – Provincetown MA) artist, novelist, journalist, memoirist, peace / social justice activist
Mary Teresa Norton (07 mar 1875 – 02 aug 1959 | Jersey City NJ – Greenwich CT) politician, memoirist [unpublished], co-founded Queen’s Daughters Day Nursery, child labor / minimum wage / women’s rights activist / legislator
Matilda Calder Thurston (16 may 1875 – 18 apr 1958 | Hartford CT – Auburndale MA) US missionary, memoirist, college founder
Ethel Newcomb (30 oct 1875 – 04 jul 1959 | Whitney Point NY – Whitney Point NY) author, biographer, memoirist, classical concert pianist, known for interpretation of works of Beethoven
Mary Ellicott Arnold (23 apr 1876 – 1968 | New Brighton NY – Nova Scotia, Canada) writer, teacher, memoirist, Native American Indian rights activist, member Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom [WILPF]
Mary Ritter Beard (05 aug 1876 – 14 aug 1958 | Indianapolis IN – Phoenix AZ) author, archivist, historian, memoirist, suffragist, woman’s historian, women’s rights activist
Natalie Clifford Barney (31 oct 1876 – 24 apr 1972 | Dayton OH – Paris FR) poet, memoirist, epigrammatist
Edwina Hume Fallis (15 nov 1876 – 14 sep 1947 | Denver CO – Denver CO) poet, writer, memoirist, educator, toy designer
Alice B. Toklas (30 apr 1877 – 07 mar 1967 | San Francisco CA – Paris FR) writer, memoirist, cookbook author, literary figure / companion
Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve (03 oct 1877 – 07 jul 1965 | New York NY – Centreville NY) author, academic, memoirist, women’s college dean, first sole female / original UN charter delegate
Lillian Evelyn Moller Gilbreth (24 may 1878 – 02 jan 1972 | Oakland CA – Phoenix AZ) author, engineer, biographer, memoirist, psychologist, inventor / innovator
Alice Mary Baldwin (24 jan 1879 – 12 oct 1960 | Lewiston ME – Durham NC) American educator, historian, memoirist, non-fiction author, women’s history activist / proponent, academic dean / administrator
Mabel Ganson Evans Dodge Sterne Luhan (26 feb 1879 – 13 aug 1962 | Buffalo NY – Taos NM) author, hostess, memoirist, patron of women’s arts / artists / writers, Native American culture promoter, pioneer US psychoanalysis patient
1880s
Frances [Fannie Coralie] Perkins Wilson (10 apr 1880 – 14 may 1965 | Boston MA – New York NY) memoirist, politician, US Secretary of Labor, workers’ rights activist, aka The Woman Behind the New Deal
Gemma La Guardia Gluck (24 apr 1881 – 01 nov 1962 | New York NY – New York NY) memoirist, Italian-Jewish-American, Holocaust survivor, sister of Fiorello La Guardia [first Italian-American mayor of NYC]
Mary MacLane (01 may 1881 – 06 aug 1929 | Winnipeg MB – Chicago IL) Canadian-American memoirist, confessional / autobiographical novelist
Olive Higgins Prouty (10 jan 1882 – 24 mar 1974 | Worcester MA – Brookline MA) poet, novelist, memoirist, philanthropist, founded Smith College writers’ scholarship
Geraldine Farrar (28 feb 1882 – 11 mar 1967 | Melrose MA – Ridgefield CT) actress, memoirist, operatic lyric soprano
Rose Schneiderman (06 apr 1882 – 11 aug 1972 | Sawin, Congress Poland – New York NY) suffragist, memoirist
Leonie von Meusebach-Zesch (27 nov 1882 – 07 jul 1944 | Mason County TX – Oakland CA) memoirist, social activist, pioneer dentist / dental surgeon, first mobile dental clinic innovator
Sonia Haft Shafirkin Greene Lovecraft Davis (16 mar 1883 – 26 dec 1972 | Ichnia, Russian Empire – Sunland CA) poet, editor, author, milliner, memoirist, essayist, publisher, playwright, fanzine investor, short fiction writer, president of United Amateur Press Association
Ruth Imogen Stout (14 jun 1884 – 22 aug 1980 | Topeka KS – Redding CT) memoirist, nonfiction author, no-work gardening expert / innovator
Ruth Draper (02 dec 1884 – 30 dec 1956 | New York NY – New York NY) diseuse, actress, dramatist, memoirist
Evelyn Nesbit (25 dec 1884 – 17 jan 1967 | Tarentum PA – Santa Monica CA) dancer, actress, memoirist, artist’s model, fashion model, in fatal love triangle with Stanford White and Harry Thaw
Malvina Cornell Hoffman (15 jun 1885 – 10 jul 1966 | New York NY – New York NY) author, memoirist, salon hostess, figurative sculptor, WWII Red Cross activist
Ethel Walbridge McCully (13 may 1886 – 21 dec 1980 | New York NY – St John USVI) novelist, memoirist, housebuilder, WWI ambulance driver
Evalyn Walsh McLean (01 aug 1886 – 26 apr 1947 | Leadville CO – Washington DC) heiress, memoirist, folk figure, last private owner of the Hope Diamond
Hilda Doolittle (10 sep 1886 – 27 sep 1961 | Bethlehem PA – Zürich CH) poet, aka H. D., novelist, memoirist
Alice Huyler Ramsey (22 nov 1886 – 10 sep 1983 | Hackensack NJ – Covina CA) memoirist, automotive pioneer, first woman to drive coast-to-coast USA, first female Automotive Hall of Fame inductee [posthumously in 2000]
Margaret Caroline Anderson (24 nov 1886 – 19 oct 1973 | Indianapolis IN – Cannes FR) author, memoirist, original Fourth Way follower, art / literary magazine founder / editor / publisher
Nancy Woodbridge [Sylvia] Beach (14 mar 1887 – 05 oct 1962 | Baltimore MD – Paris FR) bookseller, publisher, expatriate, memoirist, literary folk figure
Blanche Yurka (19 jun 1887 – 06 jun 1974 | St Paul MN – New York NY) author, actress, memoirist
Georgia O’Keeffe (15 nov 1887 – 06 mar 1986 | Sun Prairie WI – Santa Fe NM) painter, artistic icon, memoirist, autobiographer, letter correspondent
Charlotte [Lotte] Lehman (27 feb 1888 – 26 aug 1976 | Perleberg, Province of Brandenberg – Santa Barbara CA) German-born American poet, painter, memoirist, operatic soprano, master voice teacher, autobiographical author
Sophie Lewis Hutchinson Drinker (24 aug 1888 – 06 sep 1967 | Haverford PA – Philadelphia PA) author, musician, musicologist, choral composer, unpublished memoirist, pioneered / founded women’s musicological and gender studies
Dorothy Celeste Boulding Ferebee (10 oct 1888 – 14 sep 1980 | Norfolk VA – Washington DC) physician, social activist, memoirist, oral historian, national Girl Scout leader
Käte Frankenthal (30 jan 1889 – 21 apr 1976 | Kiel DEU – New York NY) German-American author, physician, memoirist, psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, socialist politician, marriage / family therapist
Sarah Louise [Sadie] Delany (19 sep 1889 – 25 jan 1999 | Lynch Station VA – Mount Vernon NY) author, teacher, memoirist
1890s
Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald Kennedy (22 jul 1890 – 22 jan 1995 | Boston MA – Hyannis MA) memoirist, philanthropist, US political family matriarch
Bella Fromm (21 dec 1890 – 09 feb 1972 | Nuremberg DEU – New York NY) memoirist, political exile, German-American journalist
Doris Fleischman Bernays (18 jul 1891 – 10 jul 1980 | New York NY – Cambridge MA) essayist, journalist, memoirist, feminist activist, public relations executive, Lucy Stone League member, first female New York Times reporter to cover boxing match, first married woman issued US Passport in maiden name
Annie Elizabeth Delany (03 sep 1891 – 25 sep 1995 | Raleigh NC – Mount Vernon NY) author, dentist, memoirist
Brenda Ueland (24 oct 1891 – 05 mar 1985 | Minneapolis MN – Minneapolis MN) editor, author, journalist, swimmer, biographer, memoirist, writing teacher, animal welfare activist, autobiographical author
Djuna Barnes (12 jun 1892 – 18 jun 1982 | Cornwall-on-Hudson NY – New York NY) poet, writer, journalist, illustrator, memoirist, playwright, sketch artist
Ruth Suckow (06 aug 1892 – 23 jan 1960 | Hawarden IA – Claremont CA) author, novelist, memoirist
Abigail Adams Eliot (09 oct 1892 – 29 oct 1992 | Dorchester MA – Concord MA) author, teacher, memoirist, nursery school movement pioneer / activist / advocate
Maria Cristina Mena Chambers (03 apr 1893 – 03 aug 1965 | Mexico City, Mexico – Brooklyn NY) memoirist, children’s author, short story writer, nonfiction author
Mary Frederika [Freda] Kirchwey (26 sep 1893 – 03 jan 1976) | Lake Placid NY – St Petersburg FL) author, pacifist, journalist, publisher, memoirist, peace / racial equality activist
Osa Helen Leighty Johnson (14 mar 1894 – 07 jan 1953 | Chanute KS – New York NY) explorer, lecturer, filmmaker, photographer, travel writer / memoirist
Ester Helen Patges Richardson Dreiser (02 may 1894 – 22 sep 1955 | Pennsylvania – Glendale CA) actress, author, memoirist
Blanche Wolf Knopf (30 jul 1894 – 04 jun 1966 | New York NY – New York NY) editor, publisher, memoirist
Nora Waln (04 jun 1895 – 27 sep 1964 | Grampian Hills PA – Malaga, Spain) author, novelist, memoirist, magazine writer, war correspondent
India Edwards (16 jun 1895 – 14 jan 1990 | Chicago IL – Sebastopol CA) politician, suffragist, memoirist, former Vice Chairwoman of US Democratic National Committee
Carobeth Tucker Laird (20 jul 1895 – 05 aug 1983 | Coleman TX – San Diego CA) memoirist, ethnographer, studied Chemehuevi of southeastern CA / western AZ
Ruth Cheney Streeter (02 oct 1895 – 30 sep 1990 | Brookline MA – Morristown NJ) memoirist, biographer, first US Marine Corps Women’s Reserve director
Vivien Kellems (07 jun 1896 – 25 jan 1975 | Des Moines IA – Brentwood CA) memoirist, tax resister, industrialist, social / political activist
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (08 aug 1896 – 14 dec 1953 | Washington DC – St Augustine FL) poet, novelist, memoirist, short fiction writer, letter correspondent
Rose Pesotta (20 nov 1896 – 04 dec 1965 | Derazhnia, Ukraine – Miami FL) author, anarchist, memoirist, feminist labor organizer, vice-president of ILGWU [International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union]
Natacha Rambova (19 jan 1897 – 05 jun 1966 | Salt Lake City UT – Pasadena CA) actress, ballerina, producer, playwright, memoirist, artistic director, screenwriter, set / costume / fashion designer, elite couture fashion shop owner, born Winifred Kimball Shaughnessy
Amelia Earhart (24 jul 1897 – disappeared 02 jul 1927 | Atchison KS – near Howland Island, Pacific Ocean) author, aviator, social worker, memoirist, letter correspondent
Lillian Eugenia Smith (12 dec 1897 – 28 sep 1966 | Jasper FL – Atlanta GA) Southern US novelist, memoirist, social critic, civil rights activist
Gladys Swarthout Chapman (25 dec 1897 – 07 jul 1969 | Deepwater MO – Florence, Italy) novelist, memoirist, film actress, operatic mezzo soprano
Irene Corbally Kuhn (15 jan 1898 – 30 dec 1995 | New York NY – Concord MA) journalist, memoirist, syndicated columnist, founding member Overseas Press Club
Katherine Ball Ripley (20 mar 1898 – 24 jul 1955 | Charleston SC – Charleston SC) novelist, memoirist, short story writer
Maria Rasputin (27 mar 1898 – 27 sep 1977 | Pokrovskoye, Russian Empire – Los Angeles NY) writer, riveter, memoirist, circus performer, animal trainer, born Matryona Grigorievna Rasputina
Rosie Goldschmidt [R. G.] Waldeck (24 jul 1898 – 29 aug 1982 | Mannheim DEU- New York NY) novelist, memoirist, magazine correspondent, autobiographical author
Eve La Gallienne (11 jan 1899 – 03 jun 1991 | London UK – Weston CT) English-American actress, lesbian, producer, director, essayist, memoirist, biographer
Eugenia Drabek Smetisko Smith (25 jan 1899 – 31 jan 1997 | Bukovina AH – North Kingstown RI) public speaker, false memoirist / autobiographical author, Romanov impostor who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia
Bella Cohen Spewack (25 mar 1899 – 29 apr 1990 | Transylvania RO – Manhattan NY) diarist, reporter, lyricist, memoirist, screenwriter
Nan Wood Graham (26 jul 1899 – 14 dec 1990 | Anamosa IA – Menlo Park CA) memoirist, folk figure, artist’s model, art historian, American Gothic icon
Colleen Moore (19 aug 1899 – 25 jan 1988 | Port Huron MI – Paso Robles CA) memoirist, silent screen star, non-fiction author, doll house creator / collector / contributor
1900s
Kathryn Cavarly Hulme (06 jan 1900 – 25 aug 1981 | San Francisco CA – Kauai HI) author, memoirist
Alice Neel (28 jan 1900 – 13 oct 1984 | Merion Square PA – New York NY) artist, author, memoirist, expressionistic portrait painter
Ilka Chase (08 apr 1900 – 15 feb 1978 | New York NY – Mexico City, Mexico) actress, novelist, memoirist
Georgia Theodora Hale (25 jun 1900 – 17 jun 1985 | St. Joseph MO – Hollywood CA) memoirist, silent actress, dance teacher, real estate investor, Christian Scientist
hryn Cavarly Hulme (06 jul 1900 – 25 aug 1981 | San Francisco CA – Lihue HI) author, lesbian, novelist, memoirist, Catholic convert, member of mystic Gurdjieff group of women called ‘The Rope’, post-WWII Deputy Director of United Nations Relief and Refugee Association (UNRRA) field teams in Germany
Frederica Alexandrina Sagor Maas (06 jul 1900 – 05 jan 2012 | New York NY – La Mesa CA) author, dramatist, memoirist, playwright, screenwriter, lived 111 years 183 days
Helen Hayes Brown MacArthur (10 oct 1900 – 17 mar 1993 | Washington DC – Nyack NY) actress, memoirist, philanthropist, autobiographical writer, aka First Lady of American Theatre
Greta Kempton (22 mar 1901 – 10 dec 1991 | Vienna AT – New York NY) author, painter, memoirist, religious art restorer, White House portrait artist
Ruth Porter Crawford Seeger (03 jul 1901 – 18 nov 1953 | East Liverpool OH – Chevy Chase MD) author, memoirist, modernist composer, American folk music specialist
Agnes Newton Keith (04 jul 1901 – 30 mar 1982 | Oak Park IL – Oak Bay BC) memoirist, POW survivor, autobiographical author
Viola Goode Liddell (18 dec 1901 – 16 may 1998 | Gastonburg AL – Camden AL) poet, author, memoirist, storyteller, short fiction writer
Marie Magdalene [Marlene] Dietrich (27 dec 1901 – 06 may 1992 | Schöneberg DEU – Paris FR) singer, actress, memoirist, German-American, social / film icon, recluse, autobiographical
Gertrude Sanford Legendre (29 mar 1902 – 08 mar 2000 | Aiken SC – Berkeley County SC) WWII spy, socialite, explorer, memoirist, environmentalist, big-game hunter, Southern plantation owner
Elizabeth Blake Goudie (20 apr 1902 – 10 jun 1982 | Mud Lake, Labrador – Happy Valley, Labrador) cook, author, memoirist
Jean Van Kirk Dalrymple (05 sep 1902 – 15 nov 1998 | Morristown NJ – New York NY) playwright, publicist, manager, memoirist, theatre producer, instrumental in founding New York City Center
Cheryl Crawford (24 sep 1902 – 07 oct 1986 | Akron OH – New York NY) memoirist, theater director, independent producer
Joan Lowell (23 nov 1902 – 07 nov 1967 | Berkeley CA – Brasilia, Brazil) film director, memoirist, silent screen actress, newspaper reporter, fabricated autobiographical author
Ethel Kremer Schwabacher (20 may 1903 – 25 nov 1984 | New York NY – New York NY) artist, author, memoirist, abstract expressionist painter
Marcia Davenport (09 jun 1903 – 16 jan 1996 | New York NY – Monterey CA) author, music critic, memoirist, biographer
Louise Dickinson Rich (14 jun 1903 – 09 apr 1991 | Huntington MA – Mattapoisett MA) novelist, essayist, memoirist, autobiographical author
Eleanor Grace Twitchell Gehrig (06 mar 1904 – 06 mar 1984 | Chicago IL – Manhattan NY) folk figure, memoirist, health activist, Muscular Dystrophy national chair
Doris Eaton Travis (14 mar 1904 – 11 may 2010 | Norfolk VA – Commerce MI) dancer, rancher, memoirist, stage / film actress, dance instructor, last of the Ziegfeld Girls
Louise Leung Larson (16 feb 1905 – 01 oct 1988 | California US – Los Angeles CA) memoirist, journalist, first Chinese-American / first Asian-American reporter in mainstream US daily paper [1926]
Mary Jane Ward (27 aug 1905 – 17 feb 1981 | Fairmount IN – Tucson AZ) novelist, memoirist, psychiatric survivor, autobiographical author
Ivy Baker Priest (07 sep 1905 – 23 jun 1975 | Kimberly UT – Santa Monica CA) memoirist, Treasurer of the United States, California State Treasurer
Agnes George de Mille (18 sep 1905 – 07 oct 1993 New York NY – New York NY) author, dancer, memoirist, master teacher, choreographer
Dorothy Tree (21 may 1906 – 13 feb 1992 | Brooklyn NY – Englewood NJ) actress, voice teacher, memoirist, non-fiction author, born Dorothy Estelle Triebitz
Anne Morrow Lindbergh (22 jun 1906 – 07 feb 2001 | Englewood NJ – Passumpsic VT) poet, author, aviator, memoirist, mother of kidnapped / murdered child
Alice Ambrose Lazerowitz (25 nov 1906 – 25 jan 2001 | Lexington IL – Northampton MA) author, logician, lecturer, memoirist, philosopher, professor of philosophy, close disciple of Ludwig Wittgenstein
Esther Eggertsen Peterson (09 dec 1906 – 20 dec 1997 | Provo UT – Washington DC) memoirist, professor, organizer, women’s / consumer rights activist, US Assistant Secretary of Labor, Director of US Women’s Bureau
Olivia Joyce Compton (27 jan 1907 – 13 oct 1997 | Lexington KY – Los Angeles CA) nurse, actress, memoirist, devout Christian, protested ‘dumb blonde’ stereotype
Ruby Altizer Roberts (22 apr 1907 – 24 may 2004 | Alum Ridge VA – Christiansburg VA) editor, memoirist, publisher, children’s book author, first / only female Poet Laureate of Virginia
Irene Hunt (18 may 1907 – 18 may 2001 | Pontiac IL – Savoy IL) teacher, novelist, memoirist
Arlene Francis Kazanjian (20 oct 1907 – 31 may 2001 | Boston MA – San Francisco CA) actress, memoirist, radio talk show host, television game show panelist, autobiographical author
Florence Rhein Bayard Bird (15 jan 1908 – 18 jul 1998 | Philadelphia PA – Ottawa ON) author, memoirist, journalist, broadcaster, Canadian Senator, Chair of Royal Commission on the Status of Women
Kathryn Anderson McLean (20 mar 1908 – 15 may 1966 | San Francisco CA – San Francisco CA) memoirist, aka Kathryn Forbes, radio script / short story writer
Ernestine Gilbreth Carey (04 apr 1908 – 04 nov 2006 | New York NY – Fresno CA) novelist, memoirist
Eve Arden West (30 apr 1908 – 12 nov 1990 | Mill Valley CA – Los Angeles CA) actress, memoirist, born Eunice Quedens, known for “Our Miss Brooks” television series
Anna Wescott [Nancy] Hale (06 may 1908 – 24 sep 1988 | Boston MA – Charlottesville VA) novelist, memoirist, playwright, short fiction writer, co-founded Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
Marcella Bannett Rabwin (15 may 1908 – 25 dec 1998 | Richmond VA – New York NY) memoirist, dressmaker, executive assistant
Estée Lauder (01 jul 1908 – 24 apr 2004 | Corona NY – New York NY) author, memoirist, businesswoman, cosmetics magnate, co-founded Estee Lauder company, born Josephine Esther Mentzer
Mary Francis Kennedy [M. F. K.] Fisher (03 jul 1908 – 22 jun 1992 | Albion MI – Glen Ellen CA) memoirist, food / travel writer, Napa Valley Wine Library founder
Mildred Lisette Norman (18 jul 1908 – 07 jul 1981 | Egg Harbor City NJ – Knox IN) mystic, pacifist, memoirist, spiritual teacher, peace / vegan activist, first woman to walk entire length of Appalachian Trail in one season, aka The Peace Pilgrim
Martha Eccles Dodd (08 oct 1908 – 10 aug 1990 | Ashland VA – Prague Czechoslovakia) author, novelist, memoirist, former spy
Patsy Montana (30 oct 1908 – 03 may 1996 | Beaudry AR – San Jacinto CA) memoirist, country musician, born Rubye Rebecca Blevins
Leona Rostenberg (28 dec 1908 – 17 mar 2005 | Bronx NY – Manhattan NY) author, memoirist, essayist, rare books dealer / collector
Evelyn Maurine Norton Lincoln (25 jun 1909 – 11 may 1995 | Polk County NE – Washington DC) memoirist, secretary to Senator-then-President JFK
Elizabeth [Lisa] Eckstein Fitko (23 aug 1909 – 12 mar 2005 | Uzhhorod HU – Chicago IL) memoirist, WWII war hero, underground resistance fighter, guided escapes from Nazi-occupied France
1910s
Joan Geraldine Bennett (27 feb 1910 – 07 dec 1990 | Palisades NJ – Scarsdale NY) author, actress, memoirist, television show panelist
Sarah Newcomb McClendon (08 jul 1910 – 08 jan 2003 | Tyler TX – Washington DC) journalist, memoirist, political reporter
Lillian Rutstein Roth (13 dec 1910 – 12 may 1980 | Boston MA – New York NY) singer, actress, memoirist, autobiographical author
Gypsy Rose Lee (09 jan 1911 – 26 apr 1970 | Seattle WA – Los Angeles CA) dancer, memoirist, playwright, mystery writer
Edna Marie Faulk Rudisill (13 mar 1911 – 03 nov 2006 | Monroeville AL – Hudson FL) author, memoirist, television personality, aka The Fruitcake Lady
Henrietta Kay [Henny] Backus (21 mar 1911 – 09 dec 2004 | Brooklyn NY – Los Angeles CA) author, memoirist, stage actress
Sybil Virginia Burgess Plumlee (29 apr 1911 – 06 jan 2012 | Seattle WA – Lake Oswego OR) teacher, memoirist, caseworker, police officer
Helen Friedman Blackshear (05 jun 1911 – 12 nov 2003 | Tuscaloosa AL – Tuscaloosa AL) poet, editor, author, teacher, memoirist, biographer, Poet Laureate of Alabama
Ruth Gruber (30 sep 1911 – 17 nov 2016 | Brooklyn NY – Manhattan NY) author, journalist, memoirist, photographer, humanitarian, former US government official
Victoria Horne (01 nov 1911 – 10 oct 2003 | New York NY – Beverly Hills CA) actress, memoirist, philanthropist
Ruth Marguerite McKenney (18 nov 1911 – 25 jul 1972 | Mishawaka IN – New York NY) author, journalist, known for memoir My Sister Eileen, wrote short fiction for The New Yorker
May Sarton (03 may 1912 – 16 jul 1995 | Wondelgem BE – York ME) poet, novelist, essayist, memoirist, journalist
Barbara Blanchard De Wolfe (14 may 1912 – 02 may 2008 | San Francisco CA – Santa Barbara CA) memoirist, ornithologist, white-crowned sparrow expert, avian life history / physiology researcher
Juanita Redmond Hipps (01 jul 1912 – 25 feb 1979 | South Carolina US – Saint Petersburg FL) author, memoirist, US Army officer, WWII Army nurse
Dale Evans Rogers (31 oct 1912 – 07 feb 2001 | Uvalde TX – Apple Valley CA) singer, author, actress, memoirist, born Lucille Wood Smith
Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon (25 oct 1912 – 04 mar 1996 | Centerville TN – Nashville TN) memoirist, comedienne, aka Minnie Pearl, cookbook writer, autobiographical author
Loretta Gretchen Young (06 jan 1913 – 12 aug 2000 | Salt Lake City UT – Los Angeles CA) actress, memoirist, Catholic charities activist
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (04 feb 1913 – 24 oct 2005 | Tuskegee AL – Detroit MI) African-American, memoirist, civil rights activist, autobiographical author, aka First Lady of Civil Rights / Mother of the Freedom Movement
Agathe Von Trapp (12 mar 1913 – 28 dec 2010 | Pola AH Towson MD) singer, painter, survivor, memoirist, illustrator, kindergarten teacher, music camper founder / director
Grace Bradley Boyd (21 sep 1913 – 20 sep 2010 | Brooklyn NY – Dana Point CA) actress, publicist, memoirist
Marion Downs (26 jan 1914 – 13 nov 2014 | New Ulm MN – Dana Point CA) audiologist, memoirist, pioneered infant hearing testing
Elaine Anderson Steinbeck (14 aug 1914 – 27 apr 2003 | Austin TX – New York NY) actress, memoirist, theater stage manager
Ruth Gikow (06 jan 1915 – 02 apr 1982 | Ukraine – New York NY) Ukrainian-American painter, visual artist, memoirist
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
Virginia Komiss Graham (04 jul 1915 – 22 dec 1998 | Chicago IL – New York NY) author, memoirist, television talk show host
Brenda Marshall (29 sep 1915 – 30 jul 1922 | Negros PH – Palm Springs CA) actress, memoirist, aka Ardis Ankerson
Jean Guttery Fritz (16 nov 1915 – 14 may 2017 | Hankow CN – Sleepy Hollow NY) memoirist, autobiographical author, historical / biographical children’s book writer
Toyo Suyemoto (14 jan 1916 – 30 dec 2003 | Oroville CA – Columbus OH) poet, teacher, memoirist, librarian, Japanese-American WWII camp internee
Marie Corinne Morrison Claiborne [Lindy] Boggs (13 mar 1916 – 27 jul 2013 | New Roads LA – Chevy Chase MD) politician, memoirist, ambassador, first LA Congresswoman, first female DNC national chair, née Marie Corinne Morrison Claiborne
Ruth Elizabeth Warrick (29 jun 1916 – 15 jan 2005 | Saint Joseph MO – New York NY) singer, actress, memoirist, political activist
Olivia de Havilland (01 jul 1916 – 26 jul 2020 | Tokyo, Japan – Paris FR) actress, author, memoirist
Jean Rouverol (08 jul 1916 – 24 mar 2017 | St Louis MO – Wingdale NY) author, actress, memoirist, biographer, screenwriter
Margaret Frances [Peg] Lynch (25 nov 1916 – 24 jul 2015 | Lincoln NE – Becket MA) memoirist, radio / television scriptwriter / sitcom creator, one of first US women to single-handedly own, write, and star in her own comedy series
Herta Ware (09 jun 1917 – 15 aug 2005 | Wilmington DE – Topanga CA) actress, memoirist, political activist
Margaret E. [Peg] Mullen (11 jun 1917 – 02 oct 2009 | Pocahontas IA – La Porte City IA) memoirist, anti-war activist
Katharine Meyer Graham (16 jun 1917 – 17 jul 2001 | New York NY – Boise ID) memoirist, newspaper publisher
June Allyson (07 oct 1917 – 08 jul 2006 | Bronx NY – Ojai CA) actress, memoirist, elder activist / advocate, born Ella Geisman
Marsha Virginia Hunt (17 oct 1917 – Chicago IL) actress, fashion author, memoirist
Françoise Aron Ulam (08 mar 1918 – 30 apr 2011 | Paris FR – Santa Fe NM) Polish-American author, memoirist, mathematician, yoga practitioner
Margaret Marian Turner McPartland (20 mar 1918 – 20 aug 2013 | Slough UK – Port Washington NY) author, biographer, memoirist, jazz pianist / composer / television host
Pearl Mae Bailey (29 mar 1918 – 17 aug 1990 | Newport News VA – Philadelphia PA) singer, memoirist, cookbook author, aka America’s Ambassador of Love
Henrietta Boggs (06 may 1918 – 09 sep 2020 | Spartanburg SC – Montgomery AL) author, activist, memoirist, journalist, former First Lady of Costa Rica
Lillian Ross (08 jun 1918 – 20 sep 2017 | Syracuse NY – Manhattan NY author, essayist, memoirist, journalist, born Rosovsky, former staff writer at The New Yorker magazine
Mary Lee Settle (29 jul 1918 – 27 sep 2005 | Charleston WV – Ivy VA) novelist, memoirist, nonfiction author, university professor, founded annual PEN-Faulkner Award for Fiction
Nancy Elizabeth [Betty] Oliphant (05 aug 1918 – 12 jul 2004 | London UK – St Catherines ON) aka Miss O, ballerina, memoirist, National Ballet School of Canada co-founder
Ann Baumgartner Carl (27 aug 1918 – 20 mar 2008 | Augusta GA – Kilmarnock VA) author, aviator, test pilot, memoirist, flight instructor, first US woman to fly jet plane
Elizabeth Ann Bloomer Ford (28 sep 1918 – 08 jul 2011 | Chicago IL – Rancho Mirage CA) memoirist, political figure, social / recovery activist, non-fiction author, women’s rights advocate
Edith Anna Maslin Ronne (13 oct 1919 – 14 jun 2009 | Baltimore MD – Bethesda MD) explorer, aka Jackie, memoirist, first woman working member of Antarctica expedition, Antarctica’s First Lady
Norma Miller (02 dec 1919 – 05 may 2019 | Harlem NY – Fort Myers FL) actress, swing dancer, memoirist, choreographer, aka Queen of Swing
1920s
Shirley Belle Cole (21 feb 1920 – 12 jan 2010 | Chicago IL – Arizona US) radio actress, memoirist
Kathryn Elizabeth Hohn Adams Doty (15 jul 1920 – 14 oct 2016 | New Ulm MN – Mankato MN) actress, novelist, memoirist
Bella Savitsky Abzug (24 jul 1920 – 31 mar 1998 | New York NY – New York NY) author, activist, attorney, memoirist, feminist leader, aka Battling Bella
Selma Diamond (05 aug 1920 – 13 may 1985 | London ON – Los Angeles CA) Canadian-American memoirist, comic actress, radio / television writer
Melina Amalia Mercouri (18 oct 1920 – 06 mar 1994 | Athens, Greece – New York NY) actress, politician, memoirist, Minister of Culture for Greece
Poldine Demoski Carlo (05 dec 1920 – 09 may 2018 | Nulato, Territory of Alaska – Fairbanks AK) author, memoirist, Alaskan Koyukon Athabaskan elder
Bernice [Bee] Falk Haydu (15 dec 1920 – 30 jan 2021 | Montclair NJ – Montclair NJ) aviator, memoirist, oral historian, women’s advocate, WWII Women Airforce Service Pilot [WASP], independent documentary filmmaker
Madelyn Pugh Davis (15 mar 1921 – 20 apr 2011 | Indianapolis IN – Santa Monica CA) television screenwriter, memoirist, aka Madelyn Pugh Davis, Madelyn Davis, Madelyn Martin
Dorothy Helen Ruth Pirone (07 jun 1921 – 18 may 1989 | New York NY – Durham CT) memoirist, Babe Ruth’s adopted / illegitimate daughter
Nancy Davis Regan (06 jul 1921 – 06 mar 2016 | New York NY – Los Angeles CA) author, actress, memoirist, First Lady of California, US Presidential First Lady, née Anne Frances Robbins
Elizabeth Spencer (19 jul 1921 – 22 dec 2019 | Carrollton MS – Chapel Hill NC) novelist, memoirist, short fiction writer, retired creative writing professor
Betty Reid Charbonnet Soskin (22 sep 1921 – Detroit MI) memoirist, civil rights activist, Unitarian Universalist member, National Park Service Ranger, oldest US National Park Ranger, helped create / assigned to Rosie the Riveter / WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond CA
Priscilla Langford Buckley (17 oct 1921 – 25 mar 2012 | New York NY – Sharon CT) author, memoirist, managing editor of National Review magazine
Dora Jean Dougherty Strother McKeown (27 nov 1921 – 19 nov 2013 | St. Paul MN – Fort Worth TX) pilot, author, memoirist, instructor, oral historian, human factors engineer, demonstration pilot, helicopter test pilot, member Woman Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), PhD in Aviation Education (NYU, 1955), sixth US woman to earn airline transport pilot license
Cyd Charisse (08 mar 1922 – 17 jun 2008 | Amarillo TX – Los Angeles CA) dancer, actress, memoirist, documentarian
Simma Milner Holt (27 mar 1922 – 23 jan 2015 | Vegreville AB – Burnaby BC) author, memoirist, journalist, former politician
Jeanne C. Hurley Simon (10 may 1922 – 20 feb 2000 | Chicago IL – Makanda IL) attorney, memoirist, IL State politician, literacy advocate, Chair of National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
Irene Williams Smith (08 aug 1922 – 24 mar 1955 | Alabama US – Alabama US) author, memoirist, journalist, country music historian / museum founder
Antonia Pantoja (13 sep 1922 – 24 may 2002 | San Juan, Puerto Rico – San Juan, Puerto Rico) feminist, educator, memoirist, social worker, civil rights leader
Liz Smith (02 feb 1923 – 12 nov 2017 | Fort Worth TX – Manhattan NY) author, journalist, memoirist, gossip columnist, cookbook writer, aka The Grand Dame of Dish
Paula Fox (22 apr 1923 – 01 mar 2017 | New York NY – Brooklyn NY) memoirist, children’s / adult novelist
Madeline Lee Gilford (30 may 1923 – 15 apr 2008 | Bronx NY – New York NY) actress, memoirist, social activist, casting director, theater producer
Betty Mae Tiger Jumper (27 apr 1923 – 14 jan 2011 | Indiantown FL – Hollywood Seminole Indian Reservation FL) chief, editor, nurse, memoirist, aka Potackee
Carolyn Cassady (28 apr 1923 – 20 sep 2013 | Lansing MI – Bracknell UK) Beat Generation writer, memoirist
Janette Carter (02 jul 1923 – 22 jan 2006 | Maces Spring VA – Kingsport TN) autoharpist, memoirist, singer-songwriter, Appalachian music preservationist
Margaret [Maggie] Gee Mei Gue (05 aug 1923 – 01 feb 2013 | Berkeley CA – Oakland CA) physicist, memoirist, politician, WWII WASP aviator / trainer
Clara Justine Claiborne Park (19 aug 1923 – 03 jul 2010 | Tarrytown NY – Williamstown NY) author, teacher, memoirist, tutored / self-educated, autism awareness activist
Denise Levertov (24 oct 1923 – 20 dec 1997 | Ilford UK – Seattle WA) British-born US poet, critic, editor, essayist, translator, memoirist, nonfiction author
Nora Eddington (25 feb 1924 – 10 apr 2001 | Chicago IL – Glendale CA) actress, memoirist, autobiographical author
Gertrude [Gert] Lamfrom Boyle (06 mar 1924 – 03 nov 2019 | Augsburg DEU – Portland OR) German-American memoirist, philanthropist, businesswoman, Columbia Sportswear president
Sarah Caldwell (06 mar 1924 – 23 mar 2006 | Maryville MO – Portland ME) child prodigy, musician, memoirist, impresario, stage director, opera conductor
Judith Bailey Jones (10 mar 1924 – 02 aug 2017 | New York NY – Walden VT) editor, author, co-author, memoirist, cookbook specialist
Carol Marcus Matthau (11 sep 1924 – 20 jul 2003 | New York NY – New York NY) actress, novelist, memoirist
Lauren Bacall (16 sep 1924 – 12 aug 2014 | Bronx NY – New York NY) actress, memoirist, autobiographical author
Betty Lee Sung (03 oct 1924 – Baltimore MD) author, activist, memoirist, professor emerita of Asian-American Studies
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
Ruth Slenczynska (15 jan 1925 – Sacramento CA) Russian-American pianist, memoirist, non-fiction author, artist-in-residence
Katherine Anne MacLean (22 jan 1925 – 01 sep 2019 | Glen Ridge NJ – US) novelist, memoirist, short fiction / science fiction author
Hazel Jane Dickens (01 jun 1925 – 22 apr 2011 | Mountcalm WV – Washington DC) memoirist, singer-songwriter, union activist, folk / bluegrass musician
Barbara Pierce Bush (08 jun 1925 – 17 apr 2018 | Flushing NY – Houston TX) memoirist, US First Lady, political family matriarch
Adele Carolyn Morales Mailer (12 jun 1925 – 22 nov 2015 | New York NY – New York NY) painter, memoirist
Lois Maureen Stapleton (21 jun 1925 – 13 mar 2006 | Troy NY – Lenox MA) memoirist, film / stage / television actress
Shanna Alexander (06 oct 1925 – 23 jun 2005 | New York NY – Hermosa Beach CA) author, journalist, memoirist
Mary Jacqueline Simon [Jackie] Moore (19 mar 1926 – 11 apr 2002 | Hannibal MO – Strasburg VA) poet, author, memoirist, WWII DuPont chemist
Gloria Jane Kim (28 mar 1926 – feb 1987 | Los Angeles CA – California US) novelist, memoirist, aka Ronyoung Kim, Korean-American
Lee Grant (31 oct 1926 – New York NY) actress, director, memoirist, born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal
Mary Ellin Berlin Barrett (25 nov 1926 – New York NY) novelist, memoirist, book critic, eldest daughter of composer Irving Berlin
Neena Betty Schwartz (10 dec 1926 – 15 apr 2018 | Baltimore MD – Evanston IL) author, feminist, LGBT activist, memoirist, endocrinologist, founding member Association for Women in Science (AWIS), Women in Endocrinology cofounder / president
Eartha Kitt (17 jan 1927 – 25 dec 2008 | North SC – Weston CT) singer, dancer, author, activist, memoirist, comedian, voice artist, née Eartha Mae Keith, German-Cherokee-African-American
Nancy Conners Hanschman Dickerson Whitehead (19 jan 1927 – 18 oct 1997 | Wauwatosa WI – New York NY) memoirist, radio / television news reporter, documentary filmmaker, founded Television Corporation of America, first American female national television news correspondent / program host
Joan Howard Maurer (02 apr 1927 – Brooklyn NY) author, memoirist, biographer, daughter of Three Stooges Moe Howard
Coretta Scott King (27 apr 1927 – 30 jan 2006 | Heiberger AL – Rosarito Beach, Mexico) author, activist, memoirist, civil rights leader
Miriam Marx Allen (19 may 1927 – 29 jun 2017 | New York NY – Capistrano Beach CA) author, memoirist, daughter of Groucho Marx
Thérèse Renaud (03 jul 1927 – 12 dec 2005 | Montréal QC – Paris FR ) poet, author, painter, memoirist
Janet Leigh (06 jul 1927 – 03 oct 2004 | Merced CA – Los Angeles CA) actress, author, memoirist, autobiographical author, born Jeanette Helen Morrison
Betty Ellen Harper Fussell (28 jul 1927 – Riverside CA) author, educator, historian, biographer, memoirist, essayist, food / arts / travel writer
Carolyn Brown (26 sep 1927 – Fitchburg MA) dancer, memoirist, choreographer, founding member Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Anita Jean Grilli (13 oct 1927 – Memphis TN) singer, pianist, author, arranger, memoirist, composer, conductor, music producer, aka Anita Kerr
Elizabeth Warnock Fernea (21 oct 1927 – 02 dec 2008 | Milwaukee WI – La Cañada Flintridge CA) writer, memoirist, filmmaker, ethnographer, Middle Eastern scholar
Rosemary Clooney (23 may 1928 – 29 jun 2009 | Maysville KY – Beverly Hills CA) singer, actress, memoirist, autobiographer, founded Rosemary Clooney Musical Festival, co-founded Betty Clooney Foundation for Brain-Injured
Sonia Pressman Fuentes (30 may 1928 – Berlin DEU) author, speaker, attorney, memoirist, feminist leader
Mari-Luci Jaramillo (19 jun 1928 – 20 nov 2019 | Las Vegas NM – Albuquerque NM) author, memoirist, schoolteacher, academic administrator, US Ambassador to Honduras
Marian Seldes (23 aug 1928 – 06 oct 2014 | New York NY – New York NY) memoirist, stage / film / radio / television actress
Muriel Faye [Mickie] Siebert (12 sep 1928 – 24 aug 2013 | Cleveland OH – New York NY) author, memoirist, researcher, philanthropist, aka The First Woman of Finance, advocate for women and minorities in business, first female owner of seat on New York Stock Exchange, first woman to head one of NYSE’s member firms
Valenza Pauline [Paule] Marshall (09 apr 1929 – 12 aug 2019 | Brooklyn NY – Richmond VA) novelist, memoirist
June Carter Cash (23 jun 1929 – 15 may 2003 | Maces Spring VA – Nashville TN) dancer, actress, memoirist, comedian, cookbook author, singer-songwriter, autobiographical author
Joanne Johnson King Herring (03 jul 1929 – Houston TX) socialite, diplomat, memoirist, philanthropist, businesswoman, political activist, former television talk show host
Barbara Walters (25 sep 1929 – Boston MA) author, essayist, memoirist, broadcast journalist, television host / personality
Marilyn Edwards French (21 nov 1929 – 02 may 2009 | Brooklyn NY – New York NY) novelist, lecturer, professor, memoirist, radical feminist, non-fiction author, anti-patriarchal activist
Marie Elyse St. George (08 dec 1929 – St Catherines ON) poet, artist, art teacher, etcher, painter, lithographer, printmaker, memoirist
1930s
Rita Lakin (24 jan 1930 – US) memoirist, playwright, screenwriter, mystery novelist
Cynthia [Cindy] Heller Adams (24 apr 1930 – New York NY) memoirist, biographer, gossip columnist, Christian Scientist
Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (19 may 1930 – 12 jan 1965 | Chicago IL – New York NY) author, activist, essayist, feminist, journalist, memoirist, playwright, political / civil rights activist, first Black and youngest winner New York Drama Critic Circle Award
Xernona Clayton Brady (30 aug 1930 – Muskogee OK) memoirist, broadcasting executive, civil rights activist / leader
Esther Rudomin Hautzig (18 oct 1930 – 01 nov 2009 | Wilno, Poland [now Vilnius, Lithuania] – New York NY) novelist, memoirist, short fiction writer
Mary Ellen [Meg] Greenfield (27 dec 1930 – 13 may 1999 | Seattle WA – Bainbridge Island WA) columnist, memoirist, editorial writer, Fulbright Scholar, awarded Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
Judith Viorst (02 feb 1931 – Newark NY) poet, author, journalist, memoirist, psychoanalysis researcher
Livia Bitton-Jackson (28 feb 1931 – Samorin, Czechoslovakia) author, speaker, memoirist, history professor, Holocaust survivor, born Elli I. Friedman
Carroll Baker (28 may 1931 – Johnstown PA) Polish-American actress, novelist, memoirist
Phoebe Burnett Snetsinger (09 jun 1931 – 23 nov 1999 | Lake Zurich IL – Madagascar) birder, memoirist
Loree Rackstraw (27 jun 1931 – 08 may 2018 | Omaha NE – Grinnell IA) memoirist, literary critic, born Lora Lee Pugh, known as Kurt Vonnegut friend / confidant
Padma Desai (12 oct 1931 – Surat IND) author, memoirist, naturalized American, development economist, Russia specialist, professor of comparative economic systems, director of Center for Transition Economies at Columbia University
Ruth Klüger (30 oct 1931 – 06 oct 2020 | Vienna AT – Irvine CA) author, professor, memoirist, Holocaust survivor, pen name: Ruth Angress
Susan Oliver (13 feb 1932 – 10 may 1990 | New York NY – Woodland Hills CA) aviator, actress, memoirist, television director, born Charlotte Gercke
Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor (27 feb 1932 – 23 mar 2011 | London UK – Los Angeles CA) aceeeetress, author, memoirist
Pauline Oliveros (30 may 1932 – 24 nov 2016 | Houston TX – Kingston NY) author, teacher, composer, memoirist, accordionist, deep listening advocate, electronic music pioneer
Alix Kates Shulman (17 aug 1932 – Cleveland OH) essayist, memoirist, professor, fiction writer, radical feminist, political activist, elder arts community advocate
Shirley Dawn Belaney (23 aug 1932 – 03 jun 1984 | Saskatchewan – Saskatchewan) Canadian author, novelist, memoirist, conservationist, born Rita Ellen
Nora Neng Yee Sung Lam (04 sep 1932 – 02 feb 2004 | Beijing CN – San Jose CA) author, memoirist, Chinese-American Christian minister, founded Nora Lam Ministries International [now World Children’s Fund]
Alicia Esther Lardé Lopez-Harrison Nash (01 jan 1933 – 23 may 2015 | San Salvador, El Salvador – Monroe Township NJ) physicist, memoirist, mental health care advocate, MIT physics graduate (1955: one of 16 women and 800 men), wrote A Beautiful Mind about husband’s / son’s schizophrenia
Barbara Murray Holland (05 apr 1933 – 07 sep 2010 | Washington DC – Bluemont VA) essayist, memoirist, biographical / historical nonfiction author
Jocelyn Elders (13 aug 1933 – Schaal AR) author, professor, pediatrician, memoirist, née Minnie Lee Jones, public health administrator, pro-legalization of marijuana advocate
Jean Anne Carpenter Carnahan (20 dec 1933 – Washington DC) author, activist, politician, memoirist
Judith Campbell Exner (11 jan 1934 – 24 sep 1999 | New York NY – Duarte CA) artist, memoirist, alleged JFK mistress, political folk figure, autobiographical author
Marilyn Horne (16 jan 1934 – Bradford PA) memoirist, autobiographical author, operatic mezzo-soprano, founded Marilyn Horne Foundation, vocal recital preservationist, Voice Program Director at Music Academy of the West (California)
Dolores Dorn Heft (03 mar 1934 – 05 oct 2019 | Chicago IL – New York NY) actress, memoirist, acting teacher at American Film Institute / Lee Strasberg Institute
Vivian Dorraine Liberto Distin (16 apr 1934 – 24 may 2005 | San Antonio TX – Ventura CA) painter, crafts artist, memoirist / autobiographical author
Jane Margaret Burke Byrne (24 may 1934 – 14 nov 2014 | Chicago IL – Chicago IL) memoirist, first / only female Chicago IL Mayor
Marie Dionne (28 may 1934 – 27 feb 1970 | Callendar ON – Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville QC) model, folk figure, memoirist, tourist attraction, aka One of the Dionne Quintuplets
Diane di Prima (06 aug 1934 – 25 oct 2020 | Brooklyn NY – San Francisco CA) poet, artist, author, teacher, memoirist, playwright, prose writer, former Beat poet, social justice activist
Lynn Leon Loscutoff (10 aug 1934 – 16 may 2018 | San Francisco CA – Naples FL) author, painter, teacher, memoirist, innovator, watercolorist, co-founded Camp Evergreen
Jill Ker Conway (09 oct 1934 – 01 jun 2018 | Hillston, Australia – Boston MA) memoirist, Australian-American, autobiographical author, MIT visiting professor, first female president of Smith College
Joan Didion (05 dec 1934 – Sacramento CA) novelist, essayist, memoirist, literary journalist
Inge Auerbacher (31 dec 1934 – Kippenheim DEU) German-Jewish-American, author, chemist, memoirist, Holocaust survivor
Marina von Neumann Whitman (06 mar 1935 – New York NY) author, economist, professor, memoirist, former automobile company executive
Vivian Gornick (14 jun 1935 – Bronx NY) critic, biographer, essayist, memoirist, non-fiction author
Geraldine Ferraro (26 aug 1935 – 26 mar 2011 | Newburgh NY – Boston MA) author, attorney, politician, memoirist, first female major-party US Vice-Presidential candidate
Etterlene Louise Abbney DeBarge-Rodriguez (13 oct 1935 – Royal Oak MI) memoirist, gospel singer, songwriter, famous family matriarch, aka Mama D
Colleen J. McElroy (31 oct 1935 – St Louis MO) poet, editor, memoirist, short fiction author
Barbara Charline Jordan (21 feb 1936 – 17 jan 1996 | Houston TX – Austin TX) politician, memoirist, civil rights movement leader, first Southern black female US Representative
Ingrid Rimland (22 may 1936 – 12 oct 2017 | Molotschna, Ukraine – Tennessee US) author, activist, novelist, memoirist, child psychologist, Holocaust denier
Jill Schary Robinson (30 may 1936 – Los Angeles CA) teacher, novelist, memoirist, essayist
Diane Aed Rehm (21 sep 1936 – Washington DC) author, memoirist, retired US National Public Radio talk show host, right-to-die activist / advocate / fundraiser
Mary Francine Dorham [Merri] Dee (30 oct 1936 – Chicago IL) civic leader, memoirist, philanthropist, broadcast journalist
Mary Allin Travers (09 nov 1936 – 16 sep 2009 | Louisville KY – Danbury CT) memoirist, folk musician / icon, singer-songwriter
Margaret Ann Schulze (11 nov 1936 – La Crosse WI) memoirist, polio survivor, young adult novelist, pen name: Peg Kehret
Katharine [Kitty] Dickson Dukakis (26 dec 1936 – Cambridge MA) memoirist, political family member, refugee / children’s activist
Mary Tyler Moore (29 dec 1936 – 25 jan 2017 | Brooklyn NY – Greenwich CT) actress, memoirist, social / political / charitable activist
Toni A. H. McNaron (03 apr 1937 – Alabama US) author, memoirist, literary scholar, professor emerita of English, focus on incest / feminism / LGBT topics
Elaine Katherine Kerr (20 apr 1937 – 01 jul 2019 | Indianapolis IN – Sarasota FL) author, actress, memoirist, playwright, acting teacher
Linda Solomon (10 may 1937 – Boston MA) editor, music critic, memoirist, popular culture commentator
Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright (15 may 1937 – Prague, Czechoslovakia) author, memoirist, US diplomat, politician, born Marie Jana Korbelová, first female US Secretary of State
Sally Claire Kellerman (02 jun 1937 – Long Beach CA) actress, author, memoirist, producer, singer, voice-over artist
Marilyn Van Derbur (16 jun 1937 – Denver CO) author, incest survivor, motivational speaker, founded Survivor United Network, former Miss Colorado / Miss America, memoir recognized widely as best-written book / text on dissociation
Brenda Bufalino (07 sep 1937 – US) poet, author, teacher, memoirist, choreographer, tap dance artist, mixed-genre artist, co-founded American Tap Dance Foundation [formerly American Tap Dance Orchestra]
Barbara Rosberg Frum (08 sep 1937 – 26 mar 1992 | Niagara Falls NY – Toronto ON) memoirist, radio / television journalist
Ruth Laredo (20 nov 1937 – 26 may 2005 | Detroit MI – New York NY) US memoirist, classical pianist, aka America’s First Lady of the Piano
Jane Fonda (21 dec 1937 – New York NY) author, actress, memoirist, political activist, fitness guru / filmmaker, aka Lady Jayne Seymour Fonda
Alma Flor Ada (03 jan 1938 – Camagüey, Cuba) Cuban-American poet, author, novelist, memoirist, children’s book author, university professor, bilingual / multicultural education advocate
Helene Antionia Winter von Damm (04 may 1938 – Ulmerfeld AT) US diplomat, memoirist, political figure, former US ambassador
Susan Elizabeth Strasberg (22 may 1938 – 21 jan 1999 | New York NY – New York NY) actress, memoirist, autobiographical author
Carol Ruth Silver (01 oct 1938 – Boston MA) lawyer, memoirist, educator, civil rights activist, original Freedom Rider
Flo Oy Wong (28 oct 1938 – Oakland CA) artist, author, curator, teacher, memoirist, Chinese-American, installation artist
Adrienne Louise Clarkson (10 feb 1939 – British Hong Kong) Chinese-Canadian memoirist, journalist, politician, stateswoman, CBC producer / broadcaster, founded Institute for Canadian Citizenship
Rosemarie Inge Koczy (05 mar 1939 – 12 dec 2007 | Recklinghausen DEU – Croton-on-Hudson NY) painter, teacher, fiber artist, memoirist, Holocaust survivor
Edna Rydzik Buchanan (16 mar 1939 – Paterson NJ) memoirist, journalist, true crime / mystery writer
Lynne Sharon Schwartz (19 mar 1939 – Brooklyn NY) poet, critic, novelist, translator, memoirist
Susan Richards Shreve (02 may 1939 – Toledo OH) editor, novelist, memoirist
Clara Leach Adams-Ender (11 jul 1939 – Willow Springs NC) memoirist, retired US Army officer, management consultant, former chief of US Army Nurse Corps, first black female graduate of US Army War College, first female Master’s graduate in military arts and sciences from US Army Command and General Staff College
Lynda Myles (22 jul 1939 – New York NY) actress, playwright, memoirist, television screenwriter, short fiction writer
Mary Jean [Lily] Tomlin (01 sep 1939 – Detroit MI) writer, actress, comedian, producer, memoirist
Carol Lynn Wright Pearson (27 sep 1939 – Rexburg ID) poet, author, Mormon, playwright, memoirist, screenwriter
Molly Haskell (29 sep 1939 – Charlotte NC) author, memoirist, film professor, feminist film critic
Grace Barnett Wing Slick (30 oct 1939 – Highland Park IL) visual artist, memoirist, singer-songwriter, aka Gracie, The Acid Queen, The Chrome Nun
Lynn Pfeiffer Thomas (20 nov 1939 – 25 aug 2009 | Los Angeles CA – Pinedale WY) artist, blogger, memoirist, photographer
Mary Catherine Bateson (08 dec 1939 – New York NY) author, memoirist, cultural anthropologist
1940s
Haleh Esfandiari (03 mar 1940 – Iran) author, academic, memoirist, Iranian-American, former political prisoner, former director of Middle East Program at Woodrow Wilson International Center, focus on Middle Eastern women’s issues / democratic developments / contemporary Iranian intellectual currents and politics
Margo Lederer Howard (15 mar 1940 – Chicago IL) writer, memoirist, former advice columnist
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer (25 mar 1940 – 26 aug 2011 | Brooklyn NY – Chicago IL) poet, novelist, memoirist, book reviewer
Kim Chernin (07 may 1940 – 17 dec 2020 | Bronx NY – San Francisco CA) poet, feminist, memoirist, pastoral counselor, fiction / nonfiction writer
Nancy Sinatra (08 jun 1940 – Jersey City NJ) singer, actress, biographer, memoirist
Karolyn Grimes (04 jul 1940 – Hollywood CA) speaker, child actress, memoirist, cookbook author
Patricia Nell Scott [Pat] Schroeder (30 jul 1940 – Portland OR) former teacher, memoirist, former state politician, first female elected to Congress in Colorado
Frances [Fran] Krauskopf Conley (12 aug 1940 – Palo Alto CA) memoirist, anti-misogyny activist, neurosurgery professor, first female faculty at Stanford
Raquel Welch (05 sep 1940 – Chicago IL) actress, memoirist, businesswoman, yoga / fitness / beauty author, née Jo Raquel Tejada
Maryse Holder (19 oct 1940 – ?? sep 1977 | Paris FR – Mexico City, Mexico) American feminist, memoirist, murder victim
Barbara Boxer (11 nov 1940 – New York NY) author, novelist, memoirist, former politician, retired US Senator
Maureen Elizabeth Reagan (04 jan 1941 – 08 aug 2001 | Los Angeles CA – Granite Bay CA) memoirist, political family member, Alzheimer’s activist / spokesperson
Gloria Rachel Bloom Allred (03 jul 1941 – Philadelphia PA) memoirist, civil / women’s rights lawyer
Marina Yevseevna Goldovskaya (15 jul 1941 – Moscow RU) director, producer, memoirist, screenwriter, Russian-American, documentary cinematographer, professor at UCLA School of Film and Television
Martha Rose Reeves (18 jul 1941 – Eufaula AL) African-American singer, author, actress, memoirist, councilwoman
Barbara Alexander Ehrenreich (26 aug 1941 – Butte MT) author, memoirist, social critic, political activist, aka veteran muckraker and myth-buster by trade
Melba Joyner Pattillo Beals (07 dec 1941 – Little Rock AR) African-American diarist, memoirist, journalist, Little Rock Nine integration activist
Carole Dawn Reinhart (20 dec 1941 – Roselle NJ) memoirist, trumpet soloist, Fulbright Scholar, retired international master teacher
Carole King (09 feb 1942 – New York NY) memoirist, singer-songwriter
Penny E. Harrington (02 mar 1942 – Lansing MI) author, memoirist, female chief of Portland [Oregon] Police Bureau, first female to head major US police department
Eleanor Millard (04 mar 1942 – North Vancouver BC) novelist, memoirist, former politician, short story writer, kinship / grandparents’ rights activist / leader
Lynn Sherr (04 mar 1942 – Philadelphia PA) feminist, memoirist, broadcast journalist, historical / biographical author
Kate Michelman (04 aug 1942 – US) memoirist, political activist, co-chair of WomenVote PA, former president of NARAL Pro-Choice America
Deidre Nansen McCloskey (11 sep 1942 – Ann Arbor MI) author, memoirist, born Donald N. McCloskey, LGBT rights activist / advocate, distinguished professor of economics, history, English, and communication
Carlotta Walls LaNier (18 dec 1942 – Little Rock AR) African-American, memoirist, youngest member of Little Rock Nine high school integration activist
Janet Sternburg (18 jan 1943 – Boston MA) poet, essayist, memoirist, fine art photographer
Alison Gordon (19 jan 1943 – 12 feb 2015 | New York NY – Toronto ON) author, novelist, memoirist, sports journalist, one of first female reporters to cover sports
Lynn Redgrave (08 mar 1943 – 02 may 2010 | Marylebone UK – Kent CT) actress, author, memoirist
Marion [Mimi] Alford (07 may 1943 – Red Bank NJ) memoirist, political figure, autobiographical author, aka Marion Beardsley Alford, Marion Fahnestock
Eve Babitz (13 may 1943 – Hollywood CA) essayist, memoirist, fiction / non-fiction writer
Joyce Rupp (08 jun 1943 – Iowa US) poet, author, memoirist, religious sister, spiritual midwife, retreat / conference speaker, Institute of Compassionate Presence co-director
Nancy Pedrick Smith Mairs (23 jul 1943 – 03 dec 2016 | Long Beach CA – Tucson AZ) author, memoirist, wrote about spirituality / women’s issues / experiences of living with multiple sclerosis
Susan Cheever (31 jul 1943 – New York NY) author, essayist, historian, memoirist, professor, biographer, focus on families and alcoholism
Carole Penny Marshall (15 oct 1943 – 17 dec 2018 | Bronx NY – Los Angeles CA) actress, director, producer, memoirist
Susan Elizabeth [Suze] Rotolo (20 nov 1943 – 25 feb 2011 | Brooklyn NY – New York NY) book artist, folk figure, memoirist
Julia Miller Phillips (07 apr 1944 – 01 jan 2002 | New York NY – West Hollywood CA) author, memoirist, film producer
Mary Woronov (08 dec 1943 – Palm Beach FL) author, actress, memoirist, figurative painter, aka Mary Might, Mary Pfft, Mary Whitehead, Mary Gershunny, Mary Woronoff
Gladys Knight (28 may 1944 – Atlanta GA) author, memoirist, LDS convert, humanitarian, singer-songwriter, aka Empress of Soul
Eugenia Zukerman (25 sep 1944 – Cambridge MA) flutist, novelist, memoirist, journalist, arts biographer, non-fiction author, classical music correspondent
Joanne Schultz Frye (06 nov 1944 – South Bend IN) author, memoirist, professor emerita of English and women’s studies, specialist in feminist literary criticism and interdisciplinary inquiry into motherhood
Susan Gubar (30 nov 1944 – Brooklyn NY) author, blogger, feminist, biographer, memoirist, cancer survivor, women’s studies distinguished professor emerita
Cathlyn Platt Wilkerson (14 jan 1945 – Brooklyn NY) author, memoirist, indicted / jailed / released as bombmaker, civil rights / women’s rights activist, former member of radical Weather Underground Organization
María de Lourdes [Mia] Villiers Farrow (09 feb 1945 – Los Angeles CA) actress, memoirist, humanitarian
Michele Rose McBride (05 apr 1945 – 04 jul 2001 | Chicago IL – Chicago IL) memoirist, burn survivor, established Phoenix Program for burn survivors / families
Rita Coolidge (01 may 1945 – Lafayette TN) singer, painter, memoirist, songwriter, recording artist, founding member of Walela Cherokee / Native American music trio
Susan Jane Berman (18 may 1945 – 23 dec 2000 | Minneapolis MN – Los Angeles CA) author, journalist, memoirist, murder victim
Susan Jacoby (04 jun 1945 – New York NY) atheist, author, memoirist
Laura Kalpakian (28 jun 1945 – Long Beach CA) author, memoirist, aka Juliet Fitzgerald and Carenna Jane Greye
Reeve Morrow Lindbergh (02 oct 1945 – Connecticut US) author, farmer, former teacher, children’s book writer, memoirist, member of famous Lindbergh family
Ellie Mathews (22 oct 1945 – Port Angeles WA) memoirist, children’s author, young adult novelist, cartographer, graphic artist, prize-winning cook
Verandah Porche (08 nov 1945 – Teaneck NJ) poet, author, memoirist, born Linda Jacobs, founding member Total Loss Farm ongoing commune in Guilford VT
Susanna Moore (09 dec 1945 – Bryn Mawr PA) author, actress, memoirist, production designer, costume designer
Dolly Rebecca Parton (19 jan 1946 – Sevier County TN) actress, memoirist, singer-songwriter, philanthropist, instrumentalist, children’s book author
Patricia [Tricia] Nixon Cox (21 feb 1946 – Whittier CA) memoirist, former US Presidential family member, board member for medical research institutions and the Richard Nixon Foundation at the Nixon Library
Mary Tabor (03 mar 1946 – Baltimore MD) novelist, memoirist, professor, short fiction writer, radio show host
Patricia Hampl (12 mar 1946 – St Paul MN) author, memoirist, lecturer, educator, Loft Literary Center founding member
Felicity Isabelle [Flick] Colby (23 mar 1946 – 26 may 2011 | Hazleton PA – Clinton NY) dancer, memoirist, choreographer
Candice Bergen (09 may 1946 – Beverly Hills CA) actress, essayist, producer, playwright, memoirist, photographer, political activist
Nancy Gertner (22 may 1946 – New York NY) blogger, memoirist, former US Federal Judge
Kay Redfield Jamison (22 jun 1946 – United States) author, memoirist, mental health activist, clinical psychologist, autobiographical author
Gilda Radner (28 jun 1946 – 20 may 1989 | Detroit MI – Los Angeles CA) actress, comedian, memoirist, cancer awareness advocate
Linda Marie Ronstadt (15 jul 1946 – Tucson AZ) singer, activist, actress, musician, memoirist, songwriter, record producer
Lucinda Franks (16 jul 1946 – Chicago IL) journalist, memoirist, magazine writer, former staff writer for New York Times, youngest winner of Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
Marilyn March vos Savant (11 aug 1946 – St Louis MO) author, playwright, memoirist, magazine columnist
Marilyn Stablein (22 aug 1946 – Los Angeles CA) poet, author, essayist, memoirist, fiction / travel writer, mixed media artist, altered book artist, performance artist
Catherine Hiller (16 nov 1946 – New York NY) author, memoirist, filmmaker, political activist, 50 year-plus cannabis advocate
Ruth Whipple Crocker (10 dec 1946 – Mystic CT) author, essayist, memoirist
Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs [Cokie] Roberts (27 dec 1946 – 17 sep 2019 | New Orleans LA – Washington DC) author, journalist, memoirist, political commentator, NPR senior news analyst
Patricia Lee [Patti] Smith (30 dec 1946 – Chicago IL) poet, memoirist, visual artist, singer-songwriter, children’s book author
Diane von Fürstenberg (31 dec 1946 – Brussels, Belgian) Belgian-American author, memoirist, fashion icon / designer, née Diane Simone Michelle Halfin, formerly Princess Diane of Fürstenberg
Leilani [Lani] Hall (06 nov 1945 – Chicago IL) poet, singer, author, lyricist, memoirist, producer, short fiction writer
Marion Alice Coburn [M. A. C.] Farrant (05 apr 1947 – Sydney, Australia) Canadian memoirist, journalist, humorist, short fiction writer
Susan E. King (15 apr 1947 – Lexington KY) artist, author, educator, ceramicist, memoirist, travel writer
Geralyn Wolf (30 apr 1947 – Brooklyn NY) essayist, memoirist, anthem writer, wood carver, twelfth diocesan bishop of Diocese of Rhode Island’s Episcopal Church
Mary Morris (13 may 1947 – Chicago IL) professor, memoirist, travel writer, short fiction author
Susan McCaslin (03 jun 1947 – BC Canada) poet, editor, author, essayist, educator, memoirist, essayist, children’s author, creative nonfiction writer
Meredith Ann Baxter (21 jun 1947 – South Pasadena CA) actress, producer, memoirist
Luci Baines Johnson (02 jul 1947 – Washington DC) memoirist, cookbook author, political family member
Joyce Dyer (20 jul 1947 – Akron OH) memoirist, biographer, nonfiction author
Laura Nyro (18 oct 1947 – 08 apr 1997 | Bronx NY – Danbury CT) author, lyricist, pianist, vocalist, composer, memoirist
Maureen Seaton (20 oct 1947 – Elizabeth NJ) LGBT poet, activist, memoirist, professor of English
Kate Clinton (09 nov 1947 – Buffalo NY) author, LGBT activist, memoirist, gay / lesbian comedian
Yvonne Thornton (21 nov 1947 – New York NY) African-American musician, memoirist, non-fiction author, ob-gyn / fetal / maternal physician
Helen Epstein (27 nov 1947 – Prague, Czechoslovakia) Czech-American journalist, biographer, memoirist
Wendy Gaynor (31 dec 1947 – US) author, baker, memoirist, columnist, entrepreneur, traumatic brain injury activist / fundraiser
Judith Miller (02 jan 1948 – New York NY) memoirist, journalist, nonfiction author, conservative, commentator, member Council on Foreign Relations
Joyce Judith Wadler (02 jan 1948 – US) writer, humorist, reporter, journalist, memoirist, contributing editor, breast and ovarian cancer survivor
Ruth Reichl (16 jan 1948 – New York NY) chef, novelist, memoirist, food writer, cookbook author, culinary editor, last editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine
Isabella Russell-Ides (24 jan 1948 – Texas US) poet, playwright, memoirist
Jessica B. Harris (18 mar 1948 – Queens NY) memoirist, journalist, professor, cookbook author, culinary historian
Esmeralda Santiago (17 may 1948 – San Juan, Puerto Rico) author, novelist, activist, memoirist
Marilyn Lacey (11 jul 1948 – San Francisco CA) memoirist, Sister of Mercy, social worker, refugee activist, founder / executive director Mercy Beyond Borders
Jeanne Córdova (18 jul 1948 – 10 jan 2016 | Bremerhaven DEU – Los Angeles CA) memoirist, LGBTQ activist / organizer
Aline Goldsmith Kominsky-Crumb (01 aug 1948 – Long Beach NY) artist, inker, editor, writer, painter, penciller, cartoonist, graphic memoirist, underground comics artist
Sue Monk Kidd (12 aug 1948 – Sylvester GA) novelist, feminist, memoirist
Carol Ann Bartz (28 aug 1948 – Winona WI) author, memoirist, business executive, former CEO / president of Yahoo!
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
Margaret Joan Sinclair Trudeau (10 sep 1948 – Vancouver BC) author, actress, memoirist, photographer, television show host, former First Lady of Canada
Adrian Margaret Smith Piper (20 sep 1948 – New York NY) author, art critic, memoirist, conceptual artist, philosophy professor
Susanna Kaysen (11 nov 1948 – Cambridge MA) author, memoirist
Angela Marie [Bay] Buchanan (23 dec 1948 – Washington DC) LDS, author, memoirist, biographer, former US Treasurer, conservative political commentator
Anne F. Beiler (16 jan 1949 – Lancaster County PA) memoirist, Old Order Amish, businesswoman, autobiographical author, Auntie Anne’s Pretzels founder
Mabelle [Mab] Massey Segrest (20 feb 1949 – Alabama US) feminist author, activist, memoirist
Dorothy Karen [Cookie] Mueller (02 mar 1949 – 10 nov 1998 | Baltimore MD – New York NY) author, actress, memoirist, art critic, journalist, health columnist, short fiction writer
Meredith Hall (25 mar 1949 – New Hampshire US) author, professor, essayist, memoirist
Jamaica Kincaid (25 may 1949 – St. John’s, Antigua) novelist, memoirist, essayist, gardener, gardening writer, Antiguan-American, born Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson, professor of African and American Studies in Residence at Harvard
Alma Guillermoprieto (27 may 1949 – Mexico City, Mexico) author, journalist, memoirist
Jane A. Bernstein (10 jun 1949 – Brooklyn NY) writer, novelist, memoirist, screenwriter
Gail Harris (23 jun 1949 – East Orange NJ) memoirist, intelligence consultant, contributing non-fiction author, first black female US Navy Squadron intelligence officer
Cyndy Truhan Garvey (16 jul 1949 – Detroit MI) memoirist, television personality
Norah O’Neill (23 aug 1949 – 22 sep 2017 | Seattle WA – Seattle WA) artist, memoirist, first licensed female Alaskan pilot, women’s aviator activist / mentor / pioneer
Angela Alioto (20 oct 1949 – San Francisco CA) attorney, politician, memoirist, political family member, Secular Franciscan Order member, Knights of Francis at Porziuncola Nuova founder
Susan [Sue] Hendrickson (02 dec 1949 – Chicago IL) author, memoirist, paleontologist, marine archeologist
Mary Catherine Gordon (08 dec 1949 – Far Rockaway NY) novelist, professor, memoirist, literary critic
Marie Harriet Brenner (15 dec 1949 – San Antonio TX) author, memoirist, investigative journalist, magazine writer-at-large
1950s
Patricia Cleveland (23 jun 1950 – New York NY) memoirist, supermodel, Siddha yoga devotee
Marianne Boruch (19 jun 1950 – Chicago IL) poet, essayist, memoirist
Carolyn Marsden (14 aug 1950 – Mexico City MX) artist, memoirist, young adult fiction writer
May Fung Yee Pang (24 oct 1950 – New York NY) author, memoirist, jewelry designer, personal assistant, production coordinator
Margaret Jane Pauley (31 oct 1950 – Indianapolis IN) author, television anchor, memoirist, broadcast journalist
Mary Swander (05 nov 1950 – Carroll IA) poet, author, memoirist, professor, former Poet Laureate of Iowa, founded website The Iowa Literary Community
Rae Yang (01 dec 1950 – People’s Republic of China) author, memoirist, professor of Chinese Language and Literature
Gail Caldwell (20 jan 1951 – Amarillo TX) book critic, columnist, memoirist, Pulitzer Prize winner for Criticism
Roxanne Renckens Pulitzer (10 feb 1951 – Cassadaga NY) actress, novelist, memoirist
Susan Musgrave (12 mar 1951 – Santa Cruz CA) American-Canadian poet, memoirist, children’s writer, fiction/non-fiction author, creative writing professor
Ceil Kovac Lucas (19 mar 1951 – US) author, linguist, memoirist, professor emerita of linguistics
Norma Jean Almodovar (27 may 1951 – Binghamton NY) author, memoirist, sex worker activist
Susan L. Williams (21 jun 1951 – 24 apr 2018 | US – Petaluma CA) author, memoirist, marine biologist, distinguished professor of evolution and ecology
Anne Garrels (02 jul 1951 – Springfield MA) memoirist, broadcast journalist, war correspondent
Ivy Eberhart Bannister (11 jul 1951 – New York NY) poet, memoirist, short fiction writer
Maureen Anne McTeer (27 feb 1952 – Ottawa ON) author, lawyer, memoirist, Canadian political family member
Jane Anne Gallop (04 may 1952 – Duluth MN) author, editor, essayist, professor, memoirist, biographer
Jill Nelson (14 jun 1952 – Harlem NY) journalist, memoirist, nonfiction author, journalism professor, autobiographical author
Julie Kane (20 jul 1952 – Boston MA) poet, editor, scholar, memoirist, Louisiana Poet Laureate
Eden Collinsworth (04 aug 1952 – US) publisher, magazine founder, novelist, memoirist, nonfiction author, international businesswoman, intercultural communication specialist
Crescent Dragonwagon (25 nov 1952 – New York NY) poet, novelist, biographer, memoirist, cookbook author, magazine writer, children’s book writer, born Ellen Zolotow, literary family member, literary executor for parents Charlotte Zolotow and Maurice Zolotow
Gelsey Kirkland (29 dec 1952 – Bethlehem PA) ballerina, memoirist, children’s book co-author
Linda Gray Sexton (21 jul 1953 – Newton MA) editor, author, novelist, memoirist, literary family member
Anne Fadiman (07 aug 1953 – New York NY) reporter, essayist, memoirist, professor, autobiographical author
Rita Rudner (17 sep 1953 – Miami FL) author, actress, memoirist, comedienne
Patty Dann (30 oct 1953 – New York NY) novelist, memoirist, nonfiction writer
Daphne Joyce Maynard (05 nov 1953 – Durham NH) novelist, memoirist, journalist, former syndicated columnist
Linda A. Morabito (21 nov 1953 – Vancouver BC) memoirist, astronomer, PTSD survivor, EMDR advocate, aka Linda Kelly, Linda Hyder, Linda Morabito-Meyer
Ji-li Jiang (02 feb 1954 – Shanghai CN) Chinese-American writer, memoirist, science teacher
Shari Karney (02 feb 1954 – US) author, attorney, memoirist, public speaker, incest-survivor activist, bar exam review company owner
Phyllis Curott (08 feb 1954 – Lynbrook NY) aka Aradia, Wiccan author, attorney, priestess, memoirist
Patricia Campbell [Patty Hearst] Shaw (20 feb 1954 – San Francisco CA) actress, heiress, novelist, memoirist, children’s AIDS activist / fundraiser, convicted of bank robbery, kidnapped / indoctrinated by Symbionese Liberation Army [SLA]
Heidi Neumark (09 mar 1954 – Summit NJ) pastor, memoirist, storyteller, spiritual author
Anne Lamott (10 apr 1954 – San Francisco CA) activist, novelist, essayist, memoirist, nonfiction writer
Mary Kathleen Turner (19 jun 1954 – Springfield MO) singer, actress, memoirist, theater director, social / political activist, rheumatoid arthritis awareness advocate
Diane Schoemperlen (09 jul 1954 – Thunder Bay ON) novelist, memoirist, short fiction writer
Carleton [Carly] Fiorina (06 sep 1954 – Austin TX) memoirist, groundbreaking businesswoman, née Cara Carleton Sneed
Ruby Bridges Hall (08 sep 1954 – Tylertown MS) memoirist, civil rights activist, first black child in all-white Southern elementary school
Elizabeth Potok Ehrlich (12 oct 1954 – Detroit MI) author, biographer, memoirist, journalism professor
Mary Karr (16 jan 1955 – Texas US) poet, feminist, essayist, memoirist, Guggenheim Fellow, pro-choice / pro-women’s ordination Catholic convert
Janice Doreen Dickinson (16 feb 1955 – Brooklyn NY) author, model, memoirist, talent scout, photographer
Valerie Elliott Shepard (27 feb 1955 – Shell Mera, Ecuador) author, memoirist, children’s author, Christian activist
Erica Hunt (12 mar 1955 – Manhattan NY) poet, essayist, professor, organizer, memoirist, Language poet, non-fiction author, literary critic, political activist
Cynthia McKinney (17 mar 1955 – Atlanta GA) author, memoirist, politician, civil rights activist, first black woman from Georgia elected to US House of Representatives, Green Party presidential candidate [2008]
Debra Winger (16 may 1955 – Cleveland Heights OH) actress, memoirist, film producer
Jill Climent (20 may 1955 – Montreal QC) novelist, memoirist, professor, Canadian-born American
Rosanne Cash (24 may 1955 – Memphis TN) author, memoirist, singer-songwriter
Cathie Beck (03 aug 1955 – Fort Dodge IA) journalist, memoirist, short fiction writer
Katherine Russell Rich (17 nov 1955 – 03 apr 2012 | Bryn Mawr PA – New York NY) memoirist, cancer survivor, autobiographical author
Margaret Ann [Peggy] Salinger (10 dec 1955 – New York NY) actress, memoirist, literary family member
Carol Browner (16 dec 1955 – Miami FL) lawyer, memoirist, environmentalist, businesswoman
Stacy Horn (03 jun 1956 – Norfolk VA) memoirist, journalist, non-fiction author, online bulletin board founder
Lisa Glasberg (06 jun 1956 – Woodmere NY) author, memoirist, radio news personality
Emily Lyons (18 jul 1956 – Montgomery AL) nurse, author, memoirist, abortion rights activist, injured in abortion clinic bombing in Birmingham AL
Geri Jewell (13 sep 1956 – Buffalo NY) actress, memoirist, autobiographical author
Lucette Lagnado (19 sep 1956 – 10 jul 2019 | Cairo, Egypt – Manhattan NY) author, memoirist, journalist, senior special writer for The Wall Street Journal
Valerie June Bowman Jarrett (14 nov 1956 – Shiraz, Iran) memoirist, businesswoman, former US government official, former senior advisor to US President Obama, co-chair of Obama-Biden Transition Project
Karen Parfitt Hughes (27 dec 1956 – Paris FR) American author, memoirist, breast cancer research activist, former television news reporter, public relations professional, former Texas press coordinator for Reagan-Bush campaign
Jennifer Brunner (05 feb 1957 – Springfield OH) politician, memoirist, first female Ohio Secretary of State
Cindy Lee Miller Sheehan (10 jul 1957 – Inglewood CA) author, memoirist, tax resister, radio show host, anti-war / political activist, member / candidate for Peace and Freedom Party in California
Cecile Richards (15 jul 1957 – Waco TX) essayist, memoirist, pro-choice activist, past president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Ford Foundation board member
Connie Schultz (21 jul 1957 – Ashtabula OH) author, journalist, memoirist, nationally syndicated columnist, journalism professor, Pulitzer Prize for Commentary winner
Katherine Ellison (19 aug 1957 – Minnesota US) editor, author, columnist, memoirist, speechwriter, motherhood / progressive education advocate, Pulitzer Prize co-laureate for International Reporting
Francine Joy [Fran] Drescher (30 sep 1957 – Queens NY) comedian, memoirist, producer, film / television actress, rape survivor, cancer survivor, anti-cancer activist
Kathleen Finneran (03 dec 1957 – St Louis MO) author, essayist, memoirist, professor, creative writing workshop leader
Cathleen Ann [Cathy] O’Brien (04 dec 1957 – Muskegon MI) author, memoirist, conspiracy theorist
Sheila Escovedo (12 dec 1957 – Oakland CA) singer, actress, memoirist, social activist, percussionist, aka Sheila E. and The Queen of Percussion
Marusya Bociurkiw (25 may 1958 – Edmonton AB) Ukrainian-Canadian poet, activist, novelist, memoirist, professor, filmmaker, film director, short fiction author, media studies scholar, media organizations founder and co-founder
Alicia Armendariz (07 nov 1958 – Los Angeles CA) author, educator, musician, memoirist, aka Alice Bag, punk rock singer, feminist archivist
Melany Neilson (01 dec 1958 – Moses Lake WA) novelist, memoirist
Pleasant Gehman (17 mar 1959 – Hollywood CA) poet, author, dancer, actress, musician, memoirist, aka Princess Farhana
Nancy Goodman (09 apr 1959 – Evanston IL) author, director, memoirist, screenwriter, focus on emotional eating disorders
Victoria Lynn Rowell (10 may 1959 – Portland ME) actress, dancer, memoirist, foster care activist
Dorothy [Doro] Walker Bush Koch (18 aug 1959 – Harris County TX) memoirist, philanthropist, former US Presidential family member
Sheri Salata (20 oct 1959 – Georgia US) producer, memoirist, co-founder / president of Story brand / media company, former co-owner Oprah Winfrey Network [OWN]
Caroline Knapp (08 nov 1959 – 03/04 jun 2002 | Cambridge MA – Cambridge MA) author, essayist, memoirist, Boston Phoenix columnist
Amy Dickinson (06 nov 1959 – Freeville NY) memoirist, social commentator, television news producer, syndicated newspaper advice columnist
Donna Lease Brazile (15 dec 1959 – Kenner LA) author, academic, memoirist, cookbook author, political analyst / commentator