13 December 2018The First Lady / Originally published

Above all, Parr commands interest for her literary labors: she was the first woman to publish under her own name in English in England.

27 March 2017The Black Book / Originally published

The first known book in English by a woman was Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich. It was written between the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and survived in various manuscripts until it was first published in 1670.

Not Sappho, who came 1,000 years later, but a high priestess and poet named Enheduanna of Mesopotamia. She was not only the world's first author, but she wrote in the first person about goddesses, priestesses, worshippers, mothers, workers, and rulers. She also wrote about sexual abuse.

He is the creator of unforgettable characters and series, including Alex Cross, the Women's Murder Club, Jane Effing Smith, and Maximum Ride, and of breathtaking true stories about the Kennedys, John Lennon, and Princess Diana, as well as our military heroes, police officers, and ER nurses.

A horrifying murder leads investigators to an unexpected address-an exclusive brothel that caters to Chicago's most powerful citizens. There's plenty of incriminating evidence on the scene, but what matters most is what's missing: the madam's black book.

Short stories typically focus on a single plot instead of multiple subplots, as you might see in novels. Some stories follow a traditional narrative arc, with exposition (description) at the beginning, rising action, a climax (peak moment of conflict or action), and a resolution at the end.

Writing is an important tool for women to voice their experiences - of identity, sexuality, marriage, love, family, life. But often women find is hard to use traditional forms of writing and literary conventions to convey these personal experiences.

Detective crime writer Dame Agatha Christie is recognised by the Guinness World Records as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, with her novels having sold more than two billion copies around the world.

He has written in a wide range of genres, from suspense to horror to romance and even children's books, but his greatest success comes from his crime and mystery novels.

“Along Came a Spider” is the most popular James Patterson novel on Goodreads, with over 400,000 ratings. The first mystery novel in the “Alex Cross” series, it has 28 novels (and counting).