Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 14: Anne Brontë.

The novelist and poet gave us one of the first feminist novels in “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”.

Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 13: Elizabeth Bowen.

A writer of strange loves and precocious children, she produced gothic-tinged stories and novels with psychological insight and idiosyncratic sentences that enthrall as they mystify — no one wrote the unreal like her.

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Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 12: Julie Dash.

A filmmaker and author who gave us but one novel — but when that book is “Daughters of the Dust”, isn’t that enough? — she weaves magic and heartbreak and history in true poetry whether it’s on the page or screen.

Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 11: Norah Lange.

Part of the Argentine avante garde, whose works are not often translated, still she gave English readers the masterfully voyeuristic and claustrophobic “People in the Room” which reads like a Munch painting come to life.

Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 10: Vera Caspray.

A crime-writing mastermind of novel and screen, she gave us feminist icons in Bedilia, Laura, and other women who refused to just play the victim.

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Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 9: Flannery O’Connor.

A true great of the Southern gothic, and an enigma of religious revery, she found evil and redemption in the strangest places (she also loved peacocks).

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Day 8: Barbara Comyns.

A writer of incredible wit and invention who mixed the gothic with remarkably personal stories — of which “Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead” stands as a masterpiece.

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Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 7: Emily Brontë.

One of literature’s many loners (and possibly neurodivergent), she left behind a lone book, the great gothic romance of “Wuthering Heights” — though, like her sisters, she was a poet as well.

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Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 6: Virginia Woolf

A breaker of grounds (gender, sexuality, form) and cubist writer of waves and Dalloways (in a room of her own), who gave us enigmas and atoms in clause and phrase.

Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 5: Anne Sexton.

A clear-eyed poet of the personal who wrote startling verse on mental illness — and fairy tales too.

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Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 4: Muriel Spark.

Spark’s knack for bitter humor is unmatched, and her characters: a famously fascist teacher, an everday devil, a stigmata martyr, and Lord Lucan himself, capture the evils of the 20th century.

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Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 3: Zora Neale Hurston.

A folkorist, author, and hoodoo priestess all rolled into one, Hurston was fearless, and as beautiful a writer as they come.

Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 2: Stevie Smith.

A poet (and illustrator) whose syntax and form are so deceptively simple — you think you’re in a child’s world until you realize she’s so much smarter than you.

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Day 1: Shirley Jackson.

She is marvelous, a writer of tremendous imagination and darkness, someone who understood human nature perhaps better than any other.

Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 1: Ursula Le Guin.

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