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• Constance Naden (1858–1889), English poet and philosopher.
• Sarojini Naidu (aka The Nightingale of India) (1879–1949), child prodigy, Indian independence activist and poet.
• Carolina Nairne (1766–1845), Scottish songwriter.
• Nakatsukasa (912–991), Japanese poet.
• Bahiyyih Nakhjavani, Persian novelist.
• Taslima Nasrin (born 1962), Bengali doctor, novelist and poet and essayist. Lajja
• Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549), French poet, playwright and short story writer. Heptameron
• Benedikte Naubert (1752–1819), German historical novelist.
• Gloria Naylor (born 1950), American novelist. The Women of Brewster Place
• Irène Némirovsky (1903–1942), Ukrainian-born novelist writing in French.
• Adalgisa Nery (1905–1980), Brazilian poet, novelist, journalist and politician.
• E. Nesbit (1858–1924), English children's novelist and short story writer. Five Children and It
• Friederike Caroline Neuber (1697–1760), German playwright and actress.
• Aimee Nezhukumatathil (born 1974), Asian American poet and essayist.
• Nandini Sahu (born 1973), Indian English poet, folklorist and academic.
• Lorine Niedecker (1903–1970), American poet; only woman associated with the Objectivist poets.
• Charlotte Niese (1854–1935), German writer and poet.
• Audrey Niffenegger (born 1963), American novelist and artist.
• Florence Nightingale (1820–1910), English nurse, statistician and feminist.
• Anaïs Nin (1903–1977), French eroticist, critic and diarist. Henry and June
• Anna de Noailles (1876–1933), French-born Romanian writer in French.
• Ingrid Noll (born 1935), German novelist.
• Oodgeroo Noonuccal (aka Kath Walker) (1920–1993), Australian poet, political activist, artist and educator.
• Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht (1718–1763), Swedish poet, feminist and salon hostess.
• Clara Nordström (1886–1962), Swedish-born novelist writing in German.
• Kathleen Norris (1880–1966), American novelist.
• Caroline Norton (1808–1877), English author, social reformer and feminist.
• Nossis (fl. c. 300 BC), Greek epigrammist and poet.
• Amélie Nothomb (born 1967), Belgian novelist.
• Alice Notley (born 1945), American poet.
• Helga M. Novak (born 1935), German poet and political writer.
• Mary Novik (born 1945), Canadian novelist.
• Princess Nukata (c. 630–690), Japanese poet of the Asuka period.
• Julia Nyberg (1784–1854), Swedish poet and songwriter.