List of Alumnae of Women's Colleges in The United States - Authors, Journalists, and Poets

Authors, Journalists, and Poets

• Katherine Lee Bates was a graduate of Wellesley College and is best known for writing America the Beautiful.
• Margaret Atwood is a graduate of Radcliffe College and an author
• Elizabeth Bishop was a graduate of Vassar College and Poet Laureate of the United States from 1949 to 1950 as well as a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1956.
• Madeleine Blais- Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author is a 1969 graduate of The College of New Rochelle
• Margaret Wise Brown, author of Goodnight Moon was a 1932 graduate of Hollins University
• Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, author of The Good Earth and the first woman to win both the Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes, was a 1914 graduate of Randolph-Macon Woman's College
• Kiran Desai is a graduate of Hollins University and an author and recipient of the Man Booker Prize in 2006
• Emily Dickinson attended Mount Holyoke College (then Mount Holyoke Female Seminary) and was a noted American poet
• Annie Dillard, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek was a 1967 graduate of Hollins University
• Nora Ephron was a graduate of Wellesley College and an author
• H.D. attended Bryn Mawr College and was a modernist poet
• Zora Neale Hurston was a 1928 graduate of Barnard College and an author
• Helen Keller was a graduate of Radcliffe College and an American author, activist and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to graduate from college.
• Jhumpa Lahiri is a 1989 graduate of Barnard College and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author
• Ursula K. Le Guin is a graduate of Radcliffe College and an author
• Marianne Moore was a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and was a modernist poet
• Flannery O'Connor was a graduate of Georgia College & State University and an author
• Suzan-Lori Parks is a 1985 graduate of Mount Holyoke College and a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
• Sylvia Plath was a 1955 graduate of Smith College and an important American author and poet
• Lee Smith, author of The Last Girls was a 1967 graduate of Hollins University
• Gertrude Stein graduated from Radcliffe College and was a modernist author and critic
• Alice Walker attended Spelman College and Sarah Lawrence College and is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author
• Wendy Wasserstein was a 1971 graduate of Mount Holyoke College and a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
• Eudora Welty was a graduate of Mississippi University for Women and an author
• Marsha Norman is a graduate of Agnes Scott College and a Pulitzer Prize winner for her drama 'night,Mother