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• Folkloristics

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• Dramatists

• Early-modern women playwrights (UK)

• Early-modern women poets (UK)

• Essayists

• Fantasy authors

• Historians

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• Horror fiction authors

• Humorists

• Illustrators

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• New technologies writers

• Non-fiction authors

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• Political authors

• Role-playing game writers

• Romantic novelists

• Science writers

• Science fiction authors

• List of Self Help Books

• Short story authors

• Software authors (i.e., designers/programmers)

• Thriller authors

• Translators

• Western fiction authors

• Young adult authors

Lists by nationality, race, origin or gender

• African American writers

• African writers or by country

• Albanian writers

• Algerian writers

• Arab American writers

• Armenian authors

• Asian American writers

• Assyrian writers

• Australian authors

• Bangladeshi writers

• Beninese writers

• Biographical dictionaries of women writers

• Brazilian writers

• Canadian writers

• Croatian authors

• Cuban American writers

• Early-modern women playwrights (UK)

• Early-modern women poets (UK)

• English writers

• Female detective/mystery writers

• Female Nobel laureates

• Female poets

• Georgian writers

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• Hungarian writers

• Icelandic writers

• Indian writers

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• Irish Writers

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• Pakistani writers

• Peruvian writers

• Philippine writers

• Playwrights by nationality and date of birth

• Polish writers

• Portuguese writers

• Puerto Rican writers

• Romanian writers

• Russian authors

• Scottish writers

• List of Serbian writers

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• Slovenian writers

• Somali writers

• Spanish writers

• Taiwanese authors

• Uruguayan authors

• Venezuelan writers

• Women comics writers and artists

• Women in Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature

• Women rhetoricians

• Women writers

• Writers in Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing

• Norton Anthology of Literature by Women

• Women science fiction authors

Lists by language (non-English)

• Bengali

• Chinese

• Croatian

• Czech

• Dutch

• French

• German

• Hebrew

• Hindi

• Italian

• List of Japanese authors:
  A B C D E F G H I J K
  M N O R S T U W Y Z

• Leonese

• Lithuanian

• Malayalam

• Oriya

• Persian

• Polish

• Portuguese

• Russian

• Spanish

• Swedish

• Tamil

• Telugu

• Urdu

• Welsh

See also

• Lists of books

• List of literary awards