Top Ten Best Female Authors

The Top Ten
1 J.K. Rowling Joanne Rowling, CH, OBE, FRSL, FRCPE, writing under the pen names J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith, is a British novelist, philanthropist, film and television producer and screenwriter best known for writing the Harry Potter fantasy series.

She is DEFINITELY in the right place at number one. Harry Potter is one of my favorite series. She is very, very talented. She never gave up, and went from be poor yo a billionaire. I respect her hard work and love her talent.

—Amberlight the Flesh-Ripper

J.K. Rowling made the harry potter series

Harry potter's mom

2 Mary Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, née Godwin (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.
3 Jane Austen Jane Austen was an English novelist known principally for her five major novels which interpret, critique and comment upon the life of the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.

Pride and Prejudice is just the most perfect thing I've ever read!

4 Laura Ingalls Wilder
5 Agatha Christie Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, was an English crime novelist, short story writer and playwright. She is the best-selling novelist ever. She also made the longest play ever. She is remembered for making multiple mystery books including; And Then There Were None, Murder on the Orient Express, A.B.C. Murders, and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
6 Harper Lee Nelle Harper Lee, better known by her pen name Harper Lee, was an American novelist widely known for To Kill a Mockingbird, published in 1960. Immediately successful, it won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and has become a classic of modern American literature.

To Kill A Mockingbird is a great book, I don’t even read books and this is probably my favorite book other than the Lord of the Rings.

She was a potty mouth.

7 Lucy Maud Montgomery
8 Daphne du Maurier
9 Louisa May Alcott
10 Astrid Lindgren
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11 Karen Blixen
12 Anne Frank Annelies Marie Frank was a German-born diarist. Anne for short. One of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, she gained fame posthumously with the publication of The Diary of a Young Girl in which she documents her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944, during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. She was discovered with her group and arrested on August 4th, 1944. She survived Aushewiz, but was told to be moved to Bergen-Belsen Coculation Camp afterwards. There, she and her sister, Margot Betti Frank, died in the March of 1945 from Typhus.

We'll never know exactly how successful she would have been had she survived the Holocaust abd written more books.

13 Charlotte Brontë Charlotte Brontë (21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels have become classics of English literature. She first published her works (including her best known novel, Jane Eyre) under the pen name Currer Bell.
14 Madame d'Aulnoy
15 Margaret Atwood
16 Maya Angelou
17 Madeleine L'Engle
18 Selma Lagerlöf
19 Virginia Woolf Adeline Virginia Woolf, born Stephen (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941), known professionally as Virginia Woolf, was an English writer and one of the foremost modernists of the 20th century.
20 Harriet Beecher Stowe
21 Pamela Lyndon Travers
22 Emily Dickinson Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet . Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts .

Although part of a prominent family with strong ties to its community, Dickinson lived much of her life in reclusive isolation . ...read more.
23 Sigrid Undset
24 Beatrix Potter
25 Barbara Cartland Barbara Cartland was an English writer, known as the Queen of Romance, who published both contemporary and historical romance novels, the latter set primarily during the Victorian or Edwardian period. Cartland is one of the best-selling authors worldwide of the 20th century.
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