25,000 people die every day due to starvation.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Authoress \Au"thor*ess\, noun A female author. --Glover.

Note: The word is not very much used, author being commonly applied to a female writer as well as to a male.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

authoress

noun: a woman author
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