Jill Krementz Photo Journal: Honoring International Women’s Day & Women’s History Month

March 8, 2026
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Margaret Atwood.
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Today is International Women’s Day, and as we continue our celebration of Women’s History Month, I am sharing a portfolio of portraits culled from my archives.

These women, portrayed alphabetically (hailing from all over the world) have garnered five Nobel Laureates, countless Pulitzers and honors galore. It goes without saying that there are many others who might have been included.

In the event that you aren’t familiar with everyone who IS here, I hope you will take the time to become familiar with her work.

Toni Cade Bambara.
Isabel Bishop.
Judy Blume.
Judy Blume.
Sarah Caldwell.
Roz Chast
Roz Chast.
Shirley Chisholm.
Shirley Chisholm.
Lucille Clifton
Lucille Clifton.
Imogene Cunningham.
Edwidge Danticat.
Angela Davis.
Angela Davis.
Kiran Desai.
Joan Didion.
Annie Dillard.
Annie Dillard.
Nora Ephron.
Marisol Escobar, otherwise known as Marisol, with her sculpture of The Royal Family.
Oriana Fallaci.
Penelope Fitzgerald.
Janet Flanner.
Diane von Furstenberg.
Nikki Giovanni
Nikki Giovanni.
Louise Glück.
Allegra Goodman.
Allegra Goodman.
Nadine Gordimer.
Elizabeth Hardwick.
Shirley Hazzard.
Lena Horne.
Gish Jen
Gish Jen.
Pauline Kael.
Diane Keaton.
Diane Keaton.
Anne Lamott.
Madeleine L’Engle.
Ursula LeGuin.
Doris Lessing.
Maya Lin.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
Shirley MacLaine
Shirley MacLaine.
Dr. Margaret Mead.
Elsa Morante.
Marianne Moore.
Toni Morrison.
Alice Munro.
Iris Murdoch.
Joyce Carol Oates.
Georgia O’Keeffe.
Tillie Olsen.
Cynthia Ozick.
Grace Paley.
Dolly Parton.
Ann Patchett
Ann Patchett.
Elsa Peretti.
I photographed Niki de Saint Phalle on a sidewalk in Paris in 1964 while covering the Paris fashion shows for The New York Herald Tribune.
Samantha Power.
Adrienne Rich.
Adrienne Rich.
Faith Ringgold
Faith Ringgold.
Esmeralda Santiago.
Anne Sexton.
Amy Sherald.
Cindy Sherman.
Beverly Sills.
Rebecca Solnit.
Patti Smith.
Susan Sontag.
Gloria Steinem.
Elizabeth Taylor.
Barbara Walters.
Wendy Wasserstein.
Eudora Welty.
Eudora Welty.
Rebecca West.
Rebecca West.
Wendy Whelan.
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