WSuchitra Bhattacharya was an Indian novelist.
WEleanor Catton is a New Zealand novelist and screenwriter. Her second novel, The Luminaries, won the 2013 Man Booker Prize.
WNatasha J. Cooper is an English crime fiction writer.
WPauline Delpech is a writer and a French actress who was born in 1981.
WAshapurna Devi also Ashapoorna Devi or Ashapurna Debi, was a prominent Indian novelist and poet in Bengali. She has been widely honoured with a number of prizes and awards. In 1976, she was awarded Jnanpith Award and the Padma Shri by the Government of India; D.Litt. by the Universities of Jabalpur, Rabindra Bharati, Burdwan and Jadavpur. Vishwa Bharati University honoured her with Deshikottama in 1989. For her contribution as a novelist and short story writer, the Sahitya Akademi conferred its highest honour, the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, in 1994.
WAgrippina Arkadyevna Dontsova, primarily known as Darya Dontsova is a Russian writer of detective novels, scriptwriter, TV presenter and member of the Union of Writers of Russia. Winner of a number of literary awards. Over the years, according to official data of the Russian Book Chamber, Dontsova takes the first place in Russia among adult fiction authors on the total annual circulation of books published by it. In 2015, published 117 books and pamphlets total circulation of Dontsova 1968 thousand copies in Russia.
WJoan Druett is a New Zealand historian and novelist, specialising in maritime history.
WChristina Erikson, née Granbom, is a Swedish crime-author. She is also an surgery-nurse and she has a degree in media and communication science.
WZoë Ferraris is an American novelist. She was born in Oklahoma. In 1991 she married a man from Saudi Arabia. She lived in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, with her in-laws for nine months. Her time in Saudi Arabia is the background for the three novels she has written. She has also written a children's novel.
WAlessia Gazzola is an Italian novelist.
WLeslie Glass is an American author, playwright, journalist, philanthropist, and filmmaker. Along with her daughter, she founded Reach Out Recovery, a United States-based nonprofit addiction recovery organization.
WNicola Griffith is a British-American novelist, essayist, and teacher. Griffith has won the Washington State Book Award, Nebula Award, James Tiptree, Jr. Award, World Fantasy Award and six Lambda Literary Awards.
WAnne Holt is a Norwegian author, lawyer and former Minister of Justice.
WAnja Jantschik is a German journalist and writer, mainly known for her crime novels.
WMary Margaret ('Mollie') Kaye was a British writer. Her most famous book is The Far Pavilions (1978).
WSabine Klewe pseudonym: Sabine Martin is a German writer, who published mainly crime novels.
WDagmar Maria Lange was a Swedish author of crime fiction under the pen name Maria Lang. She was one of the first detective novelists in the Swedish language, and her books helped make the genre popular in Sweden.
WMaria Lima, is the award-nominated writer of the Blood Lines series published by Pocket Books. Born in Matanzas, Cuba she discovered the magic of books after her family emigrated to the United States. She started writing her own stories and has been continued publishing books ever since.
WUnni Maria Lindell is a Norwegian writer. She is best known for her crime novels (whodunits), but has also written a collection of poems and several children's and young adult books.
WCharlotte Link is a German writer. She is among the most successful contemporary authors writing in German.
WAmelia Reynolds Long was an American detective fiction writer, novelist, and a pioneer woman writer for the early science fiction magazines of the 1930s.
WNadine Monfils is a Belgian writer and film director and producer.
WMartina Navratilova is a Czechoslovak-born American former professional tennis player and coach. In 2005, Tennis magazine selected her as the greatest female tennis player for the years 1975 through 2005 and she is considered one of the best female tennis players of all time.
WTwist Phelan is an American writer of crime fiction. She is known for her Finn Teller Corporate Spy mystery series, Pinnacle Peak mystery series, and her short stories, which have won numerous awards.
WAnne Birkefeldt Ragde is a Norwegian novelist.
WSara Sheridan is a Scottish activist and writer who works in a variety of genres, though predominately in historical fiction. She is the creator of the Mirabelle Bevan mysteries.
WViveca Sten is a Swedish writer and lawyer. She has a law degree from Stockholm University and has an MBA from the Stockholm School of Economics. Previously, she worked at Scandinavian Airlines, has had a highly successful legal career as a lawyer and held the position as General Counsel at PostNord, but left in 2011 to focus on her writing. Viveca lives with her family just north of Stockholm. Since 1917, Viveca´s family have spent all their summers at Sandhamn a small settlement in the central-peripheral part of the Stockholm Archipelago where her crime fiction novels are set frequently.
WVanda Symon is a crime writer and radio host from Dunedin, New Zealand, and the Chair of the Otago Southland Branch of the New Zealand Society of Authors.
WMetta Victoria Fuller Victor, who used the nom de plume Seeley Regester among others, was an American novelist, credited with authoring of one of the first detective novels in the United States. She wrote more than 100 dime novels, pioneering the field.
WHelen Newington Wills, also known as Helen Wills Moody and Helen Wills Roark, was an American tennis player. She became famous around the world for holding the top position in women's tennis for a total of nine years: 1927–33, 1935 and 1938. She won 31 Grand Slam tournament titles during her career, including 19 singles titles.