Best known for her series of well-loved children's books, this writer published her first book at the age of 65. Her books, still popular today, are autobiographical tales of her own childhood as a pioneer girl.
Jane Austen
Laura Ingalls Wilder
J. K. Rowling
This choreographer is to modern dance what Pablo Picasso was to modern art: the single greatest innovator of this century. Her name has become synonymous with modern dance in America. Her career spanned four decades and earned her the Medal of Freedom and the French Legion of Honor. This dancer is none other than:
Dorothy Dandridge
Martha Graham
Ginger Rogers
A self-proclaimed "published author earning substantial royalties" at an early age provided all the motivation necessary to become a respected, lauded author in her "later" years with works such as Jacklight and Love Medicine. This scribe is:
Jackie Collins
Rosemary Casals
Louise Erdrich
Which author speculated that "American literature is made up of great novels about young men. If I can write a novel in which [he] grows up to be socially responsible, an effective, good man – forming a community around him, bringing joy to people... then I will have helped us all grow up."?
Maxine Hong-Kingston
Maya Lin
Murasaki Shikibu
The American painter who created a distinctive iconography that includes startling details of plant forms, bleached bones, and landscapes of the New Mexico desert – all rendered with pristine clarity is:
Maya Lin
Virginia Woolf
Georgia O'Keeffe
