By Any Other Name: Writers Named Alice
February 9, 2015 § 1 Comment
There is quite a long list of writers named “Alice” (many of whom are poets, interestingly). Here is a start:
– Alice Adams (1926-1999), American novelist, professor, and short story writer.
– Alice Ambrose (1906-2001), American author, logician, and philosopher.
– Alice Bailey (1880-1949), Anglo-American theosophist and writer.
– Alice Borchardt (1939-2007), American novelist.
– Alice Dayrell Caldeira Brant (1880-1970), Brazilian diarist and socialite, who published under the pen name “Helena Morley”.
– Alice Brown (1857-1948), American novelist, playwright, and poet.
– Alice Mildred Cable (1878-1952), English author and missionary.
– Alice Cary (1820-1871), American poet.
– Alice Childress (1916-1994), American actress, author, and playwright.
– Alice Dalgliesh (1893-1979), Anglo-American author and children’s book writer.
– Alice Allison Dunnigan (1906-1983), American activist, author, and journalist.
– Alice Morse Earle (1851-1911), American author and historian.
– Alice Cunningham Fletcher (1838-1923), American ethnologist and writer.
– Alice French (1850-1934), American novelist and short story writer who also used the pen name “Octave Thanet”.
– Alice Masak French (1930-2013), Canadian Inuit memoirist.
– Alice Fulton (b. 1952), American author and poet.
– Alice Esther Glen (1881-1940), New Zealander activist, children’s book writer, journalist, and novelist, who also published under the pen name “Esther Glen”, or as simply “Esther”.
– Alice Gomme (1853-1938), English author and folklorist.
– Alice Goodman (b. 1958), American librettist and poet.
– Alice Bache Gould (1868-1953), American historian.
– Alice Corbin Henderson (1881-1949), American author, editor, and poet.
– Alice Tisdale Hobart (1882-1967), American novelist.
– Alice Hoffman (b. 1952), American children’s book writer and novelist.
– Alice James (1848-1892), American diarist.
– Alice Elinor Lambert (1886-1981), American romance author.
– Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980), American socialite and writer.
– Alice Low (b. 1926), American children’s book writer and editor.
– Alice McDermott (b. 1953), American author and educator.
– Alice Meynell (1847-1922), American activist, editor, poet, and writer.
– Alice Duer Miller (1874-1942), American poet and writer.
– Alice Milligan (1865-1953), Irish poet and writer.
– Alice Nadine Morrison (1892-1978), American musician and songwriter.
– Alice Munro (b. 1931), Canadian short story writer.
– Alice Dunbar Nelson (1875-1935), American activist, journalist, and poet.
– Alice Notley (b. 1945), American poet.
– Alice O’Fredericks (1899-1968), Danish actress, director, and screenwriter.
– Alice Oswald (b. 1966), English poet.
– Alice Parizeau (1930-1990), Polish-Canadian criminologist, essayist, journalist, and writer.
– Alice N. Persons (b. 1952), American poet.
– Alice Priestley (b. 1962), Canadian children’s book writer and illustrator.
– Alice Rahon (1904-1987), French-Mexican artist and poet.
– Alice Ravenhill (1859-1954), Anglo-Canadian activist, author, and educator.
– Alice Hegan Rice (1870-1942), American novelist.
– Alice Riley (1867-1955), American children’s book writer, playwright, poet, and songwriter.
– Alice Sebold (b. 1953), American novelist.
– Alice Bradley Sheldon (1915-1987), American science fiction author who wrote under the pen names “James Tiptree, Jr.” and “Raccoona Sheldon”.
– Alice Tilton (1909-1976), pen name of American mystery author Phoebe Atwood Taylor, who also wrote as “Freeman Dana”.
– Alice Vieira (b. 1943), Portuguese author and children’s book writer.
– Alice von Hildebrand (b. 1923), Belgian philosopher, theologian, and writer.
– Alice Walker (b. 1944), American activist and author.
– Alice Werner (1859-1935), German poet, teacher, and writer.
– Alice Muriel Williamson (1869-1933), British novelist who often published in collaboration with her husband, Charles Norris (C.N.) Williamson, and who also wrote under the pen name “Alice Stuyvesant”.
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