ABC Game

ruthbru

X-treme sports, x-ray machines

Pheasantduster

yardstick, yucca plant (hard to kill !), that's all I could come up with

Lulu22

Zirconium

magiclight

lulu..what is the next topic?

Lulu22

Oh no, I haven't followed the thread for long enough not to repeat an old topic. Howzabout you pick one for me?

magiclight

Female Authors (living or dead)

Kaption

Louisa May Alcott

Maya Angelou

Jane Austin

magiclight

Ann Brashares, Pearl S. Buck, Elizabeth Bishop

M0mmyof3

Agatha Christie

OncoWarrior

Daphne du Maurier

Kaption

Nora Ephron

George Elliott

Elizabeth Berg

Mominator

Fannie Flagg - Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café

Anne Frank  (Diary of a Young Girl)

Zillsnot4me

Dorothy Gilman (Mrs. Polifax series)

badger

Mariel Hemmingway

ruthbru

Ida Tarbell

Mominator

Shirley Jackson (1916–1965), American novelist and short story writer; "The Lottery"

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (born 1927), German-English-Indian-American novelist and screenwriter; Heat and Dust, A Room with a View, Howards End

sorry, had to look up on Wikipedia. I didn't know them by their names, but I am recognize these works. We all read The Lottery in school.

magiclight

sue monk Kidd.

Zillsnot4me

PD Jame

Mominator

Margaret Landon (1903–1993), American novelist; Anna and the King of Siam

Emma Lazarus (1849–1887), best known for her poem "The New Colossus" (inscribed on the Statue of Liberty)

Ursula K. Le Guin (born 1929), American science fiction and children's novelist, poet and essayist; Earthsea, Ekumen, The Lathe of Heaven

Harper Lee (1926–2016), American novelist; To Kill a Mockingbird

Madeleine L'Engle (born 1918), American novelist and children's novelist; A Wrinkle in Time

Lois Lowry (born 1937), American children's novelist; Number the Stars, The Giver (book series) 

badger

Margaret Meade, Margaret Mitchell, Anne McCaffrey

ruthbru

Nora Ephron

badger

Oprah (writes for O magazine), Sinead O'Connor (writes songs), Flannery O'Connor (writes short stories)

ruthbru

Sylvia Plath, Beatrix Potter, Emily Post

Zillsnot4me

JK Rowling, Nora Roberts, Karen Robard

ruthbru

We skipped Q: Anna Quindlen

Ok, Zills did the R's above, so we are on S

M0mmyof3

Mary Shelley

Kaption

Betty Smith

Dodie Smith

Zadie Smith

Mominator

S something for everyone...

George Sand (1804–1876), French novelist and playwright; Indiana

Alice Sebold (born 1963), American novelist; The Lovely Bones

Anna Sewell (1820–1887), English novelist; Black Beauty

Danielle Steel (born 1947), American romance novelist

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), American novelist, playwright, poet, librettist, and short-story writer

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1836), American novelist; Uncle Tom's Cabin

Patti Smith (born 1946), American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist

Barbra Joan Streisand (born 1942), American screenwriter and songwriter

Mominator

It helps to update once in a while, lol!

Amy Tan (born 1952), American novelist; The Joy Luck Club

P. L. Travers (1889–1996), Australian-British writer of the Mary Poppins books

Sojourner Truth (1797–1883), American feminist; "Ain't I a Woman?"

Natasha Trethewey (born 1966), American poet; Mississippi Poet Laureate, won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

ruthbru

• I needed to use Google:
• Sigrid Undset (1882–1949), Norwegian novelist and 1928 Nobel Prize in Literature-winner; Kristin Lavransdatter
• Joan Ure (1918–1978), Scottish poet and playwright
• Jane Urquhart (born 1949), Canadian novelist and poet; The Stone Carvers
• Kaari Utrio (born 1942), Finnish novelist; Isabella
• Uvavnuk (fl. early 20th century), Inuit poet