📚 American Women Authors

Books with american women authors on their catalogue record, first published between 1848 and 2019, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject american women authors in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 1,874 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	Maya Angelou	1969	81
	Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli	Margaret Fuller	1852	45
	The egg and I	Betty MacDonald	1945	45
	Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910	Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards	1915	37
	Zelda	Nancy Milford	1970	28
	The heart of a woman	Maya Angelou	1981	24
	Daughters of the Puritans	Seth Curtis Beach	1905	22
	Miri am, the avenger; or, The missing bride	Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth	1855	16
	I knew a phoenix	May Sarton	1848	15
	The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street	Helene Hanff	1973	14
	Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe	Harriet Beecher Stowe	1889	13
	Everybody's Autobiography	Gertrude Stein	1937	13
	My own two feet	Beverly Cleary	1995	13
	China to me	Emily Hahn	1944	10
	Louisa May Alcott, dreamer and worker	Belle Moses	1909	9
	The diary of Anaïs Nin	Anaïs Nin	1966	9
	Movement in Black	Pat Parker	1978	9
	Dorothy Parker	Marion Meade	1987	9
	In the Dream House	Carmen Maria Machado	2019	9
	The Wheel of Life	Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow	1906	8
	Also the hills	Frances Parkinson Keyes	1943	8
	Death's Other Kingdom	Gamel Woolsey	1939	7
	The journals of Anaïs Nin	Anaïs Nin	1966	7
	How to suppress women's writing	Joanna Russ	1983	7
	One writer's beginnings	Eudora Welty	1984	7
	Looking back	Lois Lowry	1998	7
	A Field Guide to Getting Lost	Rebecca Solnit	2005	7
	I was told there'd be cake	Sloane Crosley	2008	7
	The Life And Letters Of Mrs. Emily C. Judson	A. C. Kendrick	1860	6
	Sir Mortimer	Mary Johnston	1904	6

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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