Secret Sisters: Surprising Friendships Between Female Authors Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney Art & Literature, Arts & Culture Images of male literary friendship have become the stuff of legend, often because of their very public natures, like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway surviving riotous drinking sprees. But who were the friends of the English-speaking world’s most famous female authors? How did their relationships become the basis for great literature?