Curated category
21st-century American women writers
- Lady GagaStefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta was born on the 28th of March, 1986, at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan. She would grow up to sell an estimated 124…
- Elizabeth TaylorElizabeth Taylor was born on the 27th of February 1932 in Hampstead Garden Suburb, northwest London, in a family home called Heathwood.
- Retha WarnickeRetha Warnicke believes that Anne Boleyn was not born in 1501, as most historians long assumed, but in the summer of 1507.
- Gwyneth PaltrowGwyneth Kate Paltrow was born on the 27th of September 1972 into a family already at home in Hollywood: her mother, Blythe Danner, was a stage and screen…
- Joan WaughJoan Waugh has built an academic career around one of American history's most contested figures: Ulysses Grant. She is an American historian who studies the…
- Andrea BartzAndrea Bartz is an American writer who has achieved significant success in the mystery and thriller genres. Her novel We Were Never Here reached the New York…
- Dolly PartonDolly Rebecca Parton was born on the 19th of January 1946 in a one-room cabin on the banks of the Little Pigeon River in Pittman Center, Tennessee.
- Julia AngwinFive of Julia Angwin's seven editorial colleagues resigned their jobs the moment she was dismissed from the nonprofit newsroom she had co-founded.
- Sally RideSally Kristen Ride was born on the 26th of May, 1951, in Santa Monica, California, and died on the 23rd of July, 2012, having spent more than 343 hours in…
- Leslye HeadlandLeslye Headland described her 2015 film Sleeping with Other People as "Like When Harry Met Sally for assholes." That pitch, delivered at the Sundance Film…
- Kristi NoemKristi Lynn Arnold Noem was born on the 30th of November 1971, in Watertown, South Dakota, the daughter of Corinne and Ron Arnold.
- Angela DavisAngela Davis grew up on a street her Birmingham neighbors called "Dynamite Hill" - a name earned through the bombings of homes belonging to middle-class…
- Elinor OstromElinor Ostrom was born in Los Angeles in 1933, and she died on the 12th of June 2012, the same day her last article was published.
- Melissa DellMelissa Dell set a state record in the 3000-meter race in high school, despite eyesight so poor it made completing races a challenge.