Constance Fenimore Woolson was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. She was a grandniece of James Fenimore Cooper, and is best known for fictions about the Great Lakes region, the American South, and American expatriates in Europe.

Edith Constance Holme, married name Punchard, was an English writer and playwright. She was born in Milnthorpe, Westmorland, the youngest of fourteen children. Her novels are set in the old county of Westmorland, where she lived most of her life.

Constance Lindsay Skinner was a Canadian writer, critic, historian and editor best known for having conceived the Rivers of America Series for the publisher Farrar & Rinehart.

Cora Lenore Williams was a writer and educator known for pioneering new approaches to small-group instruction for children. She founded the A-Zed School and the Institute for Creative Development, later renamed Williams College, in Berkeley, California.

Corbyn Morris was an English official and economic writer.

Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, better known by his pen-name Cordwainer Smith, was an American author known for his science fiction works. Linebarger was a US Army officer, a noted East Asia scholar, and an expert in psychological warfare. Although his career as a writer was shortened by his death at the age of 53, he is considered one of science fiction's more influential and talented authors.

Corinne Roosevelt Robinson was an American poet, writer and lecturer. She was also the younger sister of former President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt and an aunt of future First Lady of the United States, Eleanor Roosevelt.

Cornelia Mee, born Cornelia Austin, was a British knitting and crochet pattern designer and writer.

Cornelia Lynde Meigs (1884–1973) was an American writer of fiction and biography for children, teacher of English and writing, historian and critic of children's literature. She won the Newbery Medal for her 1933 biography of Louisa May Alcott, entitled Invincible Louisa. She also wrote three Newbery Honor Books.

Cornelia Phillips Spencer was a poet, social historian and journalist in North Carolina, United States, who was instrumental in reopening the University of North Carolina after a five-year shutdown during the Reconstruction era.