Alice Brown was an American novelist, poet and playwright, best known as a writer of local color stories. She also contributed a chapter to the collaborative novel, The Whole Family (1908).
Alice Cary, née le 26 avril 1820, à Mount Healthy dans l'État de l'Ohio et morte le 12 février 1871 à New York est une poète, nouvelliste, romancière, biographe, abolitionniste et une féministe américaine. Sa biographie est indissociable de celle de sa sœur la poète Phoebe Cary, avec laquelle elle a vécu tout au long de sa vie. Toutes les deux sont des suffragettes qui ont assisté Susan B. Anthony pour la gestion du journal féministe The Revolution (en). Phoebe Cary et Alice Cary sont également connues pour être des figures de la vie culturelle new-yorkaise par l'animation d'un salon littéraire qui s'est tenu chaque dimanche soir dans leur demeure pendant quinze ans.
Alice Childress was an American novelist, playwright, and actress, acknowledged as "the only African-American woman to have written, produced, and published plays for four decades." Childress described her work as trying to portray the have-nots in a have society, saying: "My writing attempts to interpret the 'ordinary' because they are not ordinary. Each human is uniquely different. Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvellously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne." Childress became involved in social causes, and formed an off-Broadway union for actors.
