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Kentucky women writers
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The list Kentucky women writers includes
Diane Sawyer, Althea Flynt, bell hooks, Helen Thomas and Maurine Dallas Watkins.
The list consists of 132 members.
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Diane Sawyer
American television broadcast journalist (born 1945)
Overview: Lila Diane Sawyer (born December 22, 1945) is an American television broadcast journalist known for anchoring major programs on two networks including ABC World News Tonight, Good Morning America, 20/20 ...Date of birth: 22 December 1945Age: 79Nationality: AmericanOccupation: TV NewsGender: FemaleHeight: 5' 8" (173 cm)
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bell hooks
American author and activist (1952–2021)
Overview: Gloria Jean Watkins (September 25, 1952 – December 15, 2021), better known by her pen name bell hooks, was an American author, professor, feminist, and social activist. The name "bell hooks" is borrowed ...Date of birth: 25 September 1952Date of death: 15 December 2021Age: 69 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: SociologistGender: Female 0
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Helen Thomas
American journalist (1920–2013)
Overview: Helen Amelia Thomas (August 4, 1920 – July 20, 2013) was an American reporter and author, and a long serving member of the White House press corps. She covered the White House during the administrations ...Date of birth: 4 August 1920Date of death: 20 July 2013Age: 92 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: JournalistGender: Female 0
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Maurine Dallas Watkins
American journalist
Overview: Maurine Dallas Watkins (July 27, 1896? – August 10, 1969) was an American playwright and screenwriter. For a brief time she worked as a journalist covering the courthouse beat for the Chicago Tribune ...Date of birth: 27 July 1896Date of death: 10 August 1969Age: 73 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: JournalistGender: FemaleHeight: 5' 5" (165 cm) 0
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Marsha Norman
American writer
Overview: Marsha Norman (born September 21, 1947) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. She received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play 'night, Mother. She wrote the book and lyrics ...Date of birth: 21 September 1947Age: 77Nationality: AmericanOccupation: PlaywrightGender: FemaleHeight: 5' 4" (163 cm) 0
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Sue Grafton
American writer (1940-2017)
Overview: Sue Taylor Grafton (April 24, 1940 – December 28, 2017) was an American author of detective novels. She is best known as the author of the "alphabet series" ("A" Is for Alibi, etc.) featuring private ...Date of birth: 24 April 1940Date of death: 28 December 2017Age: 77 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: AuthorGender: Female 0
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Christine Fugate
American journalist
Overview: Christine Fugate (born 1964) is an American film director of documentary films, writer, and professor of film at Chapman University.Date of birth: 12 December 1963Age: 61Nationality: AmericanOccupation: Film/TV ProducerGender: Female 0
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Jessica Moore
American journalist (born 1982)
Overview: Jessica Carol Moore (born May 22, 1982) is an American journalist who currently works for WCBS-TV in New York City.Date of birth: 22 May 1982Age: 43Nationality: AmericanOccupation: TV NewsGender: FemaleHeight: 5' 5" (165 cm)Partner: Rehan Choudhry (Married) 0
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Sarah T. Bolton
American writer
Overview: Sarah Tittle Bolton née Barrett (December 18, 1814 – August 4, 1893) was an American poet and women's rights activist who is considered an unofficial poet laureat of Indiana. Bolton collaborated with Robert ...Date of birth: 18 December 1814Date of death: 5 August 1893Age: 78 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: JournalistGender: Female 0
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Emily Gimmel
American journalist and television personality
Overview: Emily Gimmel (born May 17, 1984) is an American journalist, entrepreneur, businesswoman, and television personality. 0
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Alma Bridwell White
Founder of the Pillar of Fire Church
Overview: Alma Bridwell White (June 16, 1862 – June 26, 1946) was the founder and a bishop of the Pillar of Fire Church. In 1918, she became the first woman to become a bishop in the United States. She was ...Date of birth: 16 June 1862Date of death: 26 June 1946Age: 84 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: ReligionGender: Female 0
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Vonda N McIntyre
American writer
Overview: Vonda Neel McIntyre (1948 – 2019) was an American science fiction writer and biologist.Date of birth: 28 August 1948Date of death: 1 April 2019Age: 70 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: AuthorGender: Female 0
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Karen Robards
American writerOverview: Karen Robards (born August 24 in Louisville, Kentucky) is a best-selling author of over fifty novels. After first gaining recognition for her historical romances, Robards became one of the first historical ... 0
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Annie Chambers Ketchum
American educator, lecturer, and writer
Overview: Annie Chambers Ketchum (religious name, Sister Amabilis; November 8, 1824 – January 27, 1904) was an American educator, lecturer, and writer. She was a member of the New York Academy of Sciences and became ...Date of birth: 1824Date of death: 1904Age: 79 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: PhilanthropistGender: Female 0
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Mary Hunt Affleck
American poet
Overview: Mary Hunt Affleck (January 20, 1847 – November 28, 1932) was an American agrarian poet from Texas and a Confederate advocate.Date of birth: 20 January 1847Date of death: 28 November 1932Age: 85 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: PoetGender: Female 0
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Viola Rowe Gross
American businesswoman
Overview: Viola Denisa Rowe Gross (August 25, 1921 – February 20, 2012) from Danville, Kentucky, was a teacher, businesswoman, clubwoman and author. She served on many local, state and national organizations and ...Date of birth: 25 August 1921Date of death: 20 February 2012Age: 90 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: EducatorGender: Female 0
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Nikky Finney
American poet
Overview: Nikky Finney (born Lynn Carol Finney on August 26, 1957, in Conway, South Carolina) is an American poet. She was the Guy Davenport Endowed Professor of English at the University of Kentucky for twenty ... 0
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Betty Jane Gorin-Smith
American historianOverview: Betty Jane Mitchell Gorin-Smith, known as Betty Jane Gorin-Smith (born 1940), is an independent historian from Campbellsville in Taylor County in central Kentucky, best known for her book Morgan Is Coming!: ... 0
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Hallie Erminie Rives
American writer
Overview: Hallie Erminie Rives (May 2, 1874 – August 16, 1956) was a best-selling popular novelist and wife of the American diplomat Post Wheeler.Date of birth: 2 May 1874Date of death: 16 August 1956Age: 82 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: WriterGender: Female 0
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Pam Durban
American writerOverview: Rosa Pam Durban (born March 4, 1947 Aiken, South Carolina) is an American novelist and short story writer. 0
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