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I’m female, from the United States. I’ve been a DailyLit member since July 03, 2009.
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Etc. - Question of the Week #16: Favorite Female Writers
I have to thank the people here for noting writers that I've never heard of and many that I love! George Eliot is phenomenal, I think I've learned more vocabulary from Dorothea Sayers than almost anyone, and I love Robin McKinley's re-working of fairy tales. Nora Roberts is the best modern romance writer there is (love Jane Austen for the older stuff,) and Agatha Christie is...well, she was made a Dame for a reason.
Because other people have mentioned authors I don't know, though, I'll try to do the same with a shout-out to Wendy Wasserstein for drama and essays (non-fiction) and Ruth Gruber for memoirs.
I'm not a huge non-fiction reader, but I have lots of just wonderful non-fiction written by women. In that vein, Rachel Carson must be mentioned.