Roz Chast
One of the leading cartoonists for the New Yorker, since 1978 she has published more than one thousand cartoons in the magazine.
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Signe Wilkinson
As her cartoons for Ms. Magazine in the 1980s demonstrate, Signe Wilkinson addressed women’s issues early in her career.
Zoe Caldwell
Australian-born American/U.K. actress celebrated mostly for her stage work on Broadway.
Adriana Trigiani
Adriana Trigiani is an award-winning author, playwright, screenwriter, and documentary filmmaker.
Rose O’Neill
Rose Cecil O’Neill was a self-taught bohemian artist, who ascended through a male-dominated field to become a top illustrator and the first to build a merchandising empire from her work, with her invention of the Kewpie doll.
Dr Ruth Westheimer
Famed sex therapist
Grissel Gómez Estrada
Mexican poet
Mary White Ovington
Mary White Ovington (1865–1951), a social worker and freelance writer, was a principal NAACP founder and officer for almost forty years.
Martha Putney
African-American Women’s Army Corps officer during World War II
Pippa Latour Doyle
Pippa Latour Doyle moved to England from her native South Africa in 1941 to join the war effort. She was recruited into the UK’s Special Operations Executive (SOE) to spy for the Allies in France due to her fluency in French.