Adriana Trigiani
Adriana Trigiani is an award-winning author, playwright, screenwriter, and documentary filmmaker.
Adriana Trigiani is an award-winning author, playwright, screenwriter, and documentary filmmaker.
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.
Famed sex therapist
Mexican poet
Mary White Ovington (1865–1951), a social worker and freelance writer, was a principal NAACP founder and officer for almost forty years.
African-American Women’s Army Corps officer during World War II
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.
American comic artist
Renée Bedarida was a Frenc Resistance fighter who worked with the Lyonnais group Témoignage Chrétien (Christian Witness) in WWII. After the war, she wrote two books about the movement and its leader, Father Pierre Chaillet.
Unlike many cartoonists at that time, she depicted women in the military and other jobs.