American women diarists

The list American women diarists includes Stevie Nicks, Sylvia Plath, Anaïs Nin, Rachel Joy Scott and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. The list consists of 85 members.

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Angelina Jolie

American actress (born 1975)

Overview: Angelina Jolie (born Angelina Jolie Voight; June 4, 1975) is an American actress, filmmaker and humanitarian. The recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award and three Golden Globe Awards ...

Date of birth: 4 June 1975

Age: 49

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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21st-century American diarists 6T

American bisexual actresses 154T

American people who self-identify as being of Iroquois descent 5T
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Stevie Nicks

American singer and songwriter (born 1948)

Overview: Stephanie Lynn Nicks (born May 26, 1948) is an American singer, songwriter, and producer known for her work with the band Fleetwood Mac and as a solo artist.

Date of birth: 26 May 1948

Age: 76

Nationality: American

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)

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Singer-songwriters from Arizona 78T

Childfree 40T

21st-century American women singers 3,082T
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Sylvia Plath

American poet and writer (1932–1963)

Overview: Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of ...

Date of birth: 27 October 1932

Date of death: 11 February 1963

Age: 30 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Poet

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

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1963 suicides 28T

American women writers who committed suicide 22T

People from Jamaica Plain 93T
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Anaïs Nin

French-born American author (1903–1977)

Overview: Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell (February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977), known professionally as Anaïs Nin (), was a French-Cuban-American diarist, essayist, novelist and writer ...

Date of birth: 21 February 1903

Date of death: 14 January 1977

Age: 73 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Author

Gender: Female

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20th-century American non-fiction writers 3,627T

20th-century French essayists 227T

20th-century American women writers 5,363T
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Rachel Joy Scott

American murder victim

Overview: Rachel Joy Scott (August 5, 1981 – April 20, 1999) was an American student and the first victim of the Columbine High School massacre, in which 11 other students and a teacher were also murdered ...

Date of birth: 5 August 1981

Date of death: 20 April 1999

Age: 17 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Victim

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

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American women non-fiction writers 2,184T

20th-century American non-fiction writers 3,627T

20th-century American women writers 5,363T
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh

American aviator and author (1906–2001)

Overview: Anne Spencer Lindbergh (née Morrow; June 22, 1906 – February 7, 2001) was an American author and aviator, wife of decorated pioneer aviator Charles Lindbergh, with whom she made many exploratory flights ...

Date of birth: 22 June 1906

Date of death: 7 February 2001

Age: 94 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Author

Gender: Female

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Deaths from pneumonia in Vermont 9T

20th-century diarists 190T

Dwight-Englewood School alumni 38T
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Angela Nissel

American author and television writer (born 1978)

Overview: Angela R. Nissel (born December 5, 1978) is an American author and television writer best known for her first book The Broke Diaries: The Completely True and Hilarious Misadventures of a Good Girl Gone ...

Date of birth: 5 December 1978

Age: 45

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

Partner: Sean Waltman (Dating)

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American women television writers 652T

American women television producers 668T

Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts alumni 18T
8.

Rachel Corrie

American anti-war and pro-Palestinian activist

Overview: Rachel Aliene Corrie (April 10, 1979 – March 16, 2003) was an American activist and diarist. She was a member of a pro-Palestinian group called the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). She was killed ...

Date of birth: 12 April 1979

Date of death: 16 March 2003

Age: 23 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Activist

Gender: Female

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Women memoirists 1,131T

American expatriates in Palestine 2T

Rachel Corrie 5T
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Nonna Bannister

American writer

Overview: Nonna Bannister (neė Lisowskaja; 22 September 1927 – 15 August 2004) was a Russian-American author and Holocaust survivor. She is best known for her memoir, The Secret Holocaust Diaries: The Untold Story ...

Date of birth: 22 September 1927

Date of death: 15 August 2004

Age: 76 (age at death)

Nationality: Russian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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American women memoirists 620T

American women non-fiction writers 2,184T

20th-century American non-fiction writers 3,627T
10.

Opal Whiteley

American ariter

Overview: Opal Irene Whiteley (December 11, 1897—February 16, 1992) was an American nature writer and diarist whose childhood journal was first published in 1920 as The Story of Opal in serialized form in the A ...

Date of birth: 11 December 1897

Date of death: 16 February 1992

Age: 94 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

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People from Colton, Washington 4T

American Book Award winners 440T

20th-century naturalists 229T
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Mary Boykin Chesnut

American writer

Overview: Mary Boykin Chesnut (née Miller) (March 31, 1823 – November 22, 1886) was an American author noted for a book published as her Civil War diary, a "vivid picture of a society in the throes of its life- ...

Date of birth: 31 March 1823

Date of death: 22 November 1886

Age: 63 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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19th-century memoirists 181T

American women memoirists 620T

People from Stateburg, South Carolina 8T
12.

Zina D. H. Young

American activist

Overview: Zina Diantha Huntington Young (January 31, 1821 – August 28, 1901) was an American social activist and religious leader who served as the third general president of the Relief Society of The Church of ...

Date of birth: 31 January 1821

Date of death: 28 August 1901

Age: 80 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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Wives of Joseph Smith 9T

Wives of Brigham Young 6T

Latter Day Saints from Ohio 91T
13.

Alice James

American diarist

Overview: Alice James (August 7, 1848 – March 6, 1892) was an American diarist, sister of novelist Henry James and philosopher and psychologist William James. Her relationship with William was unusually close ...

Date of birth: 7 August 1848

Date of death: 6 March 1892

Age: 43 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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American women non-fiction writers 2,184T

19th-century American women writers 1,226T

Women memoirists 1,131T
14.

Mary Phinney von Olnhausen

American nurse, abolitionist, and diarist

Overview: Mary Phinney von Olnhausen (1818–1902) was an American nurse, abolitionist, and diarist. Historians look to the book extracted from her diaries -- "Adventures of an Army Nurse in Two Wars" to understand ...

Date of birth: 1818

Date of death: 1902

Age: 83 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Nurse

Gender: Female

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American women nurses 556T

Female nurses in the American Civil War 78T

American Civil War medicine 10T
15.

Diane Pernet

French journalist

Overview: Diane Pernet is a Paris-based American-born international fashion blogger and critic and founder of the international ASVOFF (A Shaded View on Fashion Film) festival.

Nationality: American

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Female

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21st-century American non-fiction writers 3,393T

21st-century American women writers 5,816T

Women magazine editors 592T
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Barbara Rosenthal

American artist

Overview: Barbara Ann Rosenthal (born 1948) is an American avant-garde artist, writer and performer. Her existential themes have contributed to contemporary art and philosophy. Her pseudonyms include "Homo Futurus," ...

Date of birth: 1948

Age: 76

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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21st-century women photographers 411T

20th-century women photographers 594T

College of Staten Island faculty 21T
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Cornelia Peake McDonald

American writer

Overview: Cornelia Peake McDonald (June 14, 1822 – January 11, 1909) was an American diarist who was the author of A Diary with Reminiscences of the War and Refugee Life in the Shenandoah Valley, 1860-1865 ...

Date of birth: 14 June 1822

Date of death: 11 January 1909

Age: 86 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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American women non-fiction writers 2,184T

Writers from Alexandria, Virginia 50T

19th-century American women writers 1,226T
18.

Patty Bartlett Sessions

American pioneer

Overview: Patty Bartlett Sessions (February 4, 1795 – December 14, 1892) was an early member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She is celebrated for her work as a midwife for members of the Church ...

Date of birth: 4 February 1795

Date of death: 14 December 1892

Age: 97 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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Wives of Joseph Smith 9T

Converts to Mormonism from Methodism 35T

American midwives 53T
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Emmeline B. Wells

American journalist, editor, poet, women's rights advocate, and diarist

Overview: Emmeline Blanche Woodward Harris Whitney Wells (pronounced em-ma-līn) (February 29, 1828 – April 25, 1921) was an American journalist, editor, poet, women's rights advocate, and diarist. She served ...

Date of birth: 29 February 1828

Date of death: 25 April 1921

Age: 93 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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American women hymnwriters 68T

Utah suffrage 12T

19th-century American women politicians 28T
20.

Esther Edwards Burr

American writer (1732-1758)

Overview: Esther Edwards Burr (February 13, 1732 – April 7, 1758) was the mother of 3rd U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr, Jr. and the wife of Princeton University President Aaron Burr, Sr. whom she married in 1752 ...

Date of birth: 13 February 1732

Date of death: 7 April 1758

Age: 26 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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18th-century diarists 67T

Mothers of vice presidents of the United States 11T

Jonathan Edwards family 10T