Nina Zagat
Co–founder of the eponymous Zagat guide
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Jennifer Homans
Jennifer Homans published Apollo’s Angels in 2010, a history of classical ballet that she had been working on for ten years. It is an epic work, tracing four centuries and spanning different countries, setting the evolution of the form in the many political, philosophical, and aesthetic contexts that shaped it.
Katharine Graham
Owner, board chair and publisher of The Washington Post for decades
Edwina Brocklesby
Edwina Brocklesby, who would go on to be the U.K.’s oldest Ironman triathlete and founder and director of Silverfit, which promotes physical activity among older people, “didn’t do any exercise at all until I was 50.”
Bernardine Evaristo
“When I won the Booker Prize in 2019 for my novel Girl, Woman, Other, I became an ‘overnight success’ – after forty years working professionally in the arts.”
Betty Krawczyk
American-Canadian environmentalist
Michelle Obama
American first lady, lawyer, bestselling author and producer
Michelle Buteau
American comedian, actor and writer
Dr Mona Chalmers Watson
In July 1917, Mona Chalmers Watson was named the first Chief Controller of Britain’s Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) when it was formed. The thousands of WAACs worked as cooks and waitresses, clerks, communications operators, drivers, and more. She was already noteworthy as a suffragist, physician, and the first woman to receive her MD from the University of Edinburgh.
Ernestine Shepherd
American bodybuilder