Francelia McWilliams Butler was an American scholar, pioneer and writer of children's literature. She is also known for creating the International Peace Games.
Francena H. Arnold (1888–1972) was a 20th-century novelist, author of the Christian fiction classic Not My Will and nine other books. Five of her books have been featured in the Christian Classics book series on the Bible Broadcasting Network.
Frances Gies and Joseph Gies were historians and writers who collaborated on a number of books about the Middle Ages, and also wrote individual works. They were husband and wife. Joseph Gies graduated from the University of Michigan in 1939.
Frances Boyd Calhoun was an American writer and teacher in Tennessee. She authored the children's book Miss Minerva and William Green Hill (1909), which has been a publishing success and has gone through more than fifty printed editions. She died four months after its publication.
Frances Burney, also known as Fanny Burney and later Madame d'Arblay, was an English satirical novelist, diarist and playwright. In 1786–1790 she held the post as "Keeper of the Robes" to Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, George III's queen. In 1793, aged 41, she married a French exile, General Alexandre d'Arblay. After a long writing career and wartime travels that stranded her in France for over a decade, she settled in Bath, England, where she died on 6 January 1840. The first of her four novels, Evelina (1778), was the most successful and remains her most highly regarded. Most of her plays were not performed in her lifetime. She wrote a memoir of her father (1832) and many letters and journals that have been gradually published since 1889.
