Gallery of Major Figures

James Young Deer (1876-1946)
Director, Actor

Featured Works
White Fawn's Devotion (1910)
The Red Girl and the Child (1910)
The Cheyenne's Bride (1911)
An Up-To-Date Squaw (1911)

Biography

Djuna Barnes (1892-1982)
Writer

Featured Works
Ladies Almanack

Associated Major Figures
Natalie Clifford Barney (friend)

Biography

Image Source
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Object Number NPG.91.63

Natalie Clifford Barney (1876-1972)
Also known as: Tryphé
Writer

Featured Works
Poems & Poèmes (excerpts)

Associated Major Figures
Djuna Barnes (friend)

Biography

Image Source
Smithsonian Archives
Alice Pike Barney Papers, 1861-1965, Box 1
1.11. Natalie Clifford Barney, Photo by Alice Hughes, 52 Gower Street London.
Image No. SIA2015-006900
Public Domain

Charles Warren Stoddard (1843-1909)
Writer

Featured Works
"Chumming with a Savage" (excerpt from Summer Cruising in the South Seas)

Associated Major Figures
Yone Noguchi (romantic partner)

Biography

Yone Noguchi (1875-1947)
Writer

Featured Works
"In the Bungalow with Charles Warren Stoddard: A Protest Against Modernism"

Associated Major Figures
Charles Warren Stoddard (romantic partner)

Biography

Zitkala-Ša (1876-1938)
Writer

Featured Works

Biography

John Rollin Ridge (1827-1867)
Also Known As: John R. Ridge, Cheesquatalawny, Yellow Bird
Writer

Featured Works
Poems
Letter from John Rollin Ridge to a Friend, 1949

Biography

Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
Writer, Documentary Filmmaker

Featured Works
Color Struck
Mules and Men
Untitled Documentary Footage

Biography

Richard Bruce Nugent (1906-1987)
Also known as: Bruce Nugent, Richard Bruce
Writer

Featured Works
"Smoke, Lilies and Jade"
"Lighting FIRE!!"

Biography

Gwendolyn Bennett (1902-1981)
Writer, Artist

Featured Works
"Wedding Day"

Biography

Wallace Thurman (1903-1934)
Writer, Editor, Screenwriter

Featured Works
"Fire Burns"
"Cordelia the Crude, A Harlem Sketch"

Biography

Oscar Micheaux (1884-1951)
Director, Writer (Fiction, Screenplays)

Featured Works
Novels:
The Homesteader (1917)
Films:
Within Our Gates (1920)
The Symbol of the Unconquered (1920)
Body and Soul (1925)

Biography

Stella Wynne Herron (1885-1966)
Writer (Fiction)

Featured Works
"Shoes" (1916)

Featured Films Based on Herron's Work
Shoes (1916)

Biography

Jane Addams (1860-1935)
Writer (Nonfiction)

Featured Works
A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil (1912)

Biography

Madeleine Blair (18??-19??)
Writer (Memoir)

Featured Works
Madeleine: An Autobiography (1919)

Biography

Lois Weber (1879-1939)
Director, Screenwriter

Featured Works
Shoes (1916)
Suspense (1913)

Biography

Winnifred Eaton (1875-1954)
Also known as: Onoto Watanna, Winnifred Reeve
Writer (Fiction, Screenplays, Poetry)

Featured Works
"Sneer Not" (1896)
"The Pot of Paint" (1902)
Shanghai Lady (1929)
East Is West (1930)

Associated Major Figures
Edith Maude Eaton (sister)

Biography

Edith Eaton (1865-1914)
Also known as: Sui Sin Far, Sui Seen Far
Writer (Fiction)

Featured Works
"Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian" (1909)
"In the Land of the Free" (1912)
"Mrs. Spring Fragrance" (1912)
"A Chinese Boy-Girl" (1912

Associated Major Figures
Winnifred Eaton (sister)

Biography

Mildred Ransom Cram (1889-1985)
Writer (Fiction, Screenplays, Nonfiction)

Featured Works
"The Feeder" (1926)
"Girls Together" (1931)

Featured Films Adapted from Cram's Stories:
Behind the Makeup (1931)
This Modern Age (1931)

Biography

Mourning Dove (1884-1936)
Also known as: Humishima, Christine Quinstasket.
Writer

Featured Works
Cogewea: The Half-Blood: A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range (1927)

Biography

Lydia Taylor (1873-19??)
Writer (Memoir)

Featured Works
From Under the Lid: An Appeal to True Womanhood (1913)

"The picture in this book was taken two weeks ago, at the age of forty, but I receive more attention than when I was sixteen, and I am so tired of it all—a lot of meaningless flattery—knowing, too, it is a sham and pretense, entirely lacking the power to stir me as it did once when I was young and more foolish." (From Under the Lid 112)

Biography