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Zarna Garg

Indian-American comedian

Lynda Weinman

Digital artist and author of one of the first web design textbooks in 1996

Nina Zagat

Co–founder of the eponymous Zagat guide

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.”