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Gertrude Atherton
Margaret Atwood

Jean M. Auel
Countess d'Aulnoy

Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
b. 10-30-1857; San Francisco
d. 6-14-1948

Gertrude Atherton is most remembered for her short stories and novels on the history of California.

• The Californians by Gertrude Atherton

Margaret Atwood
b. 11-18-1939; Ottawa, Canada

Poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist Margaret Atwood has been awarded numerous prizes for her work. She calls stories like The Handmaid's Tale “speculative fiction”, and recently wrote the non-fiction “Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth”.

Jean Auel
b. 2-8-1936; Chicago, IL

Jean Auel, best known for her Earth's Children series set in prehistoric Europe, explores interactions of Cro-Magnon people with Neanderthals.

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Marie-Catherine, Countess d'Aulnoy
b. 1650/51; France
d. 1-4-1705

Madame d'Aulnoy, remembered today as the originator of the term “fairy tale”, recorded stories as they may have been told in her famous literary salon.

• The Fairy Tales of Madame D'Aulnoy

Jane Austen
b. 12-16-1775; England
d. 7-18-1817

Mr. Darcy had at first scarcely allowed her to be pretty; he had looked at her without admiration at the ball, and when thay next met, he looked at her only to criticise. But no sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes. — Pride and Prejudice

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