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This inspiring, beautifully illustrated collection honors one hundred exceptional women throughout history and around the world. A Stylist Must-read Book of 2018 In this luminous volume, New York Times bestselling writer Julia Pierpont and artist Manjit Thapp match short, vibrant, and surprising biographies with stunning full-color portraits of secular female "saints": champions of strength and progress. These women broke ground, broke ceilings, and broke molds - including Maya Angelou * Jane Austen * Ruby Bridges * Rachel Carson * Shirley Chisholm * Marie Curie & Irne Joliot Curie * Isadora Duncan * Amelia Earhart * Artemisia Gentileschi * Grace Hopper * Dolores Huerta * Frida Kahlo * Billie Jean King * Audre Lorde * Wilma Mankiller * Toni Morrison * Michelle Obama * Sandra Day O'Connor * Sally Ride * Eleanor Roosevelt * Margaret Sanger * Sappho * Nina Simone * Gloria Steinem * Kanno Sugako * Harriet Tubman * Mae West * Virginia Woolf * Malala Yousafzai Open to any page and find daily inspiration and lasting delight.
About the Author
Julia Pierpont was born and raised in New York City. She is a graduate of Barnard College and NYU's MFA program, where she was a Rona Jaffe Graduate Fellow. AMONG THE TEN THOUSAND THINGS is her debut novel. She works at The New Yorker and lives in Brooklyn with her lunatic dog, Dash.
