Names and Major Works of Female Novelists from Abroad

Jane Austen (Jane Austen, 1775-1817, England): Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice
Mary Shelley (Mary Shelley, 1797-1851, England): Frankenstein
Charlotte Brontë (Charlotte Brontë, 1816-1855, England): Jane Eyre, Villette
Emily Brontë (Emily Jane Brontë, 1818-1848, England): Wuthering Heights
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, 1873-1954, France): Claudine Series, Chéri
Louisa May Alcott (Louisa May Alcott, 1832-1888, USA): Little Women
Kate Chopin (Kate Chopin, 1850-1904, USA): The Awakening, At Fault
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Lucy Maud Montgomery, 1874-1942, Canada): Anne of Green Gables
Jean Webster (Alice Jane Chandler Webster, 1876-1916, USA): Daddy-Long-Legs
Virginia Woolf (Adeline Virginia Stephen Woolf, 1882-1941, England): To the Lighthouse
Agatha Christie (Agatha Christie, 1890-1976, England): Murder on the Orient Express, And Then There Were None
Jean Rhys (Jean Rhys, 1890-1979, England): Good Morning, Midnight, Wide Sargasso Sea
Katherine Anne Porter (Katherine Anne Porter, 1890-1980, USA): Maria Concepción, Ship of Fools
Pearl S. Buck (Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, 1892-1973, USA): The Good Earth
Margaret Mitchell (Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell, 1900-1949, USA): Gone With the Wind
Daphne du Maurier (Dame Daphne du Maurier, 1907-1989, England): Rebecca, The Birds
Eudora Welty (Eudora Welty, 1909-2001, USA): The Optimist's Daughter
Marguerite Duras (Marguerite Duras, 1914-1996, France): The Lover
Doris Lessing (Doris Lessing, CH, 1919-2013, England): The Fifth Child, The Grandmothers (Original Novel of the film Two Mothers)
Patricia Highsmith (Patricia Highsmith, 1921-1995, USA): Ripley (The Talented Mr. Ripley), Carol (The Price of Salt)
Flannery O'Connor (Flannery O'Connor, 1925-1964, USA): A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Wise Blood
Harper Lee (Nelle Harper Lee, 1926-2016, USA): To Kill a Mockingbird
Ursula K. Le Guin (Ursula Kroeber Le Guin, 1929-2018, USA): A Wizard of Earthsea, The Farthest Shore, The Left Hand of Darkness
Toni Morrison (Toni Morrison, 1931-2019, USA): Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Jazz, Love
Alice Munro (Alice Munro, 1931-Present, Canada): Dance of the Happy Shades, The Beggar Maid
Sylvia Plath (Sylvia Plath, 1932-1963, USA): The Bell Jar
Françoise Sagan (Françoise Sagan, 1935-2004, France): Bonjour Tristesse, Do You Like Brahms?
Annie Proulx (Edna Annie Proulx, 1935-Present, USA): Brokeback Mountain, The Shipping News
Lucia Berlin (Lucia Berlin, 1936-2004, USA): A Manual for Cleaning Women, Evening in Paradise
Joyce Carol Oates (Joyce Carol Oates, 1938-Present, USA): Zombie, Nightmare, The Gravedigger's Daughter
Margaret Atwood (Margaret Atwood, 1939-Present, Canada): The Handmaid's Tale (Adapted into a TV series), Alias Grace
Annie Ernaux (Annie Ernaux, 1940-Present, France): La Place, Passion Simple
Anne Tyler (Anne Tyler, 1941-Present, USA): The Clock Winder
Monika Maron (Monika Maron, 1941-Present, Germany): Dust, The Woman Who Crosses Borders, The Sorrowful Beast
Isabel Allende (Isabel Allende Llona, 1942-Present, Chile): The House of the Spirits, Daughter of Fortune
Connie Willis (Connie Willis, 1945-Present, USA): Fire Watch, Doomsday Book, To Say Nothing of the Dog, The Doomsday Book, Blackout
Elfriede Jelinek (Elfriede Jelinek, 1946-Present, Austria): The Lovers, The Piano Teacher, Desire
Octavia E. Butler (Octavia Estelle Butler, 1947-2006, USA): Kindred, Bloodchild
Laura Esquivel (Laura Esquivel, 1950-Present, Mexico): Like Water for Chocolate, The Law of Love, The Insatiable,
Patricia Cornwell (Patricia Cornwell, 1956-Present, USA): Postmortem, The Last Precinct
Elizabeth Strout (Elizabeth Strout, 1956-Present, USA): Olive Kitteridge
Jeanette Winterson (Jeanette Winterson, 1959-Present, UK): Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Jennifer Egan (Jennifer Egan, 1962-Present, USA): A Visit from the Goon Squad, The Keep
Joanne Harris (Joanne Harris, 1964-Present, UK): Chocolat, Blackberry Wine, Five Quarters of the Orange
J.K. Rowling (Joan K. Rowling, 1965-Present, UK): Harry Potter series
Sarah Waters (Sarah Waters, 1966-Present, UK): Tipping the Velvet, Fingersmith, The Little Stranger
Amélie Nothomb (Amélie Nothomb, 1967-Present, France/Belgium): Hygiene & Morality, Stupeur et Tremblements (Stupor and Tremors), Antéchrista
Jhumpa Lahiri (Jhumpa Lahiri, 1967-Present, India/USA): The Namesake, In Other Words
Gillian Flynn (Gillian Flynn, 1971-Present, USA): Gone Girl, Dark Places
Lauren Weisberger (Lauren Weisberger, 1977-Present, USA): The Devil Wears Prada
Ayako Miura (三浦綾子, 1922-1999, Japan): Ice Cream
Seiko Tanabe (田辺聖子, 1928-2019, Japan): Josee, the Tiger and the Fish, Cocoa in the Lonely Night
Nanami Shiono (鹽野七生, 1937-Present, Japan): The History of Rome series
Miyuki Miyabe (宮部みゆき, 1960-Present, Japan): All She Was Worth, The Train, No Answer Needed
Riku Onda (恩田陸, Onda Riku, 1964-Present, Japan): The March Comes in Like a Lion, The Library of the Sea, Eugenia
Fumio Yamamoto (山本文緒, やまもと ふみお, 1962-Present, Japan): Planaria, Love Addiction
Banana Yoshimoto (吉本ばなな, 1964-Present, Japan): Kitchen, N.P., Amrita
Kana Minato (湊かなえ, 1973-Present, Japan): Confessions, Atoneement, The Night Parade