Murasaki Shikibu, novelist, 978-1016 -- Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta, traveler, 1304-1377 -- Martin Luther, theologian, 1483-1546 -- William Shakespeare, playwright and poet, 1564-1616 -- Write to film: screenplays -- Maria Merian, naturalist and scientific illustrator, 1647-1717 -- Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, poet, dramatist, and religious writer, 1651-1695 -- Phillis Wheatley, poet, 1753-1784 -- Wang Zhenyi, mathematician and poet, 1768-1797 -- Sequoyah, anthropologist, 1776-1843 -- Write to declare: the United States Declaration of Independence -- Sojourner Truth, abolitionist and women's rights activist, 1797-1883 -- Louis Braille, inventor and educator, 1809-1852 -- Charles Darwin, naturalist, 1809-1882 -- Ada Lovelace, algorithm writer, 1815-1852 -- Frederick Douglass, abolitionist and orator, 1818-1895 -- Write to abolish: the Reconstruction amendments -- Florence Nightingale, statistician and founder of nursing, 1820-1910 -- Ida B. Wells, investigative journalist and activist, 1862-1931 -- Nellie Bly, undercover reporter, 1864-1922 -- Qiu Jin, revolutionary, 1875-1907 -- Mary McLeod Bethune, educator, 1875-1955 -- Zitkala-Sa, writer, translator, and advocate, 1876-1938 -- Helen Keller, author and activist, 1880-1968 -- Zora Neale Hurston, novelist and anthropologist, 1891-1960 -- Langston Hughes, poet, 1902-1967 -- George Orwell, novelist, 1903-1950 -- Rachel Carson, marine biologist and environmentalist, 1907-1964 -- Mary Garber, sportswriter, 1916-2008 -- Hans and Sophie Scholl, social activists, 1918-1943 and 1921-1943 -- James Baldwin, novelist, 1924-1987 -- Malcolm X, activist, 1925-1965 -- Jan Morris, author and historian, 1926-2020 -- Patsy Takemoto Mink, lawyer and politician, 1927-2002 -- Anne Frank, diarist, 1929-1945 -- The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., minister and activist, 1929-1968 -- Audre Lorde, poet, feminist, and activist, 1934-1992 -- Octavia Butler, science fiction author, 1947-2006 -- Sandra Cisneros, novelist and poet, 1954- -- Write to illustrate: comic books and graphic novels -- Gene Luen Yang, cartoonist and graphic novelist, 1973- -- Sonita Alizadeh, rapper and activist, 1996- -- Malala Yousafzai, activist, 1997- -- Sophie Cruz, activist, 2010- -- Write to change: speeches at March for Our Lives -- Write to write -- Write to revise -- Write to advise: advice from writers on writing

"Interactive and inspiring, Mightier Than the Sword celebrates the stories of over forty diverse, trailblazing people whose writing transformed history"--

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