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Mary Hunter Austin (Author)

Mary Hunter Austin (Author)

Mary Hunter Austin (September 9, 1868 โ€“ August 13, 1934) was an American writer.

"What women have to stand on squarely [is] not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way."
September 9, 1868 Tags author inspiration

Padma Lakshmi (Author, Model, Chef, Reality Show Star)

Padma Lakshmi (Author, Model, Chef, Reality Show Star)

Padma Parvati Lakshmi Vaidynathan was born in Chennai, India on September 1, 1970. She is an author, actress, model, television host and executive producer. Her debut cookbook Easy Exotic won her the "Best First Book" award at the 1999 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. She has been the host of the US reality television program Top Chef since season two in 2006, for which she received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program.

September 1, 1970 Tags author chef model television

Amrita Pritam (Author, Poet, Essayist)

Amrita Pritam (Author, Poet, Essayist)

Amrita Pritam (31 August 1919 โ€“ 31 October 2005) was an Indian writer and poet, who wrote in Punjabi and Hindi. She is considered the first prominent woman Punjabi poet, novelist, and essayist, and the leading 20th-century poet of the Punjabi language, who is equally loved on both sides of the India-Pakistan border. With a career spanning over six decades, she produced over 100 books of poetry, fiction, biographies, essays, a collection of Punjabi folk songs and an autobiography that were translated into several Indian and foreign languages.

August 31, 1919 Tags author India poetry