I honestly can't recall many female fiction authors or characters and I studied comparative lit.  There was Margaret Atwood (Can Con) and a few poets whose names escape me.  I tend, in fiction, to veer towards sci-fi classics like Bradbury, historical fiction like Clavell, or (and my favourite) philosophical existentialism or psychedelic lit like Hesse, Kafka, and Murakami.

I read your book, Broken Money... I don't read a lot of fiction these days.  Maybe I need to seek out some recommendations.