Enheduanna

Enheduanna was the entu, or high priestess, of the moon god Nanna at the Sumerian city-state of Ur during the reign of her father, Sargon of Akkad, in the twenty-third century BCE, and is celebrated as the earliest named author in world history. Works of Sumerian literature including the Exaltation of Inanna name her as their first-person narrator, and the Sumerian Temple Hymns are traditionally attributed to her, though modern Assyriologists debate on linguistic and archaeological grounds whether she personally composed the works credited to her, since the only surviving manuscripts were copied by scribes centuries after her lifetime in a later dialect of Sumerian. Her historical existence, forgotten after the end of the First Babylonian Empire, was rediscovered by archaeologists in 1927 when Leonard Woolley excavated an alabaster disk bearing her name and title at Ur.