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Shirley Shackleton

Australia’s Shirley Shackleton became an activist after the 1975 murder of her husband, journalist Greg Shackleton.

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.

Jessica Mitford

Jessica Mitford was born in 1917, one of the six renowned Mitford sisters from an aristocratic English famil, and would go on to become the “queen of the muckrakers.”

Julienne Aisner

A former teacher and scriptwriter, Julienne Aisner was running a Paris film company when the Nazis occupied France. The 43-year-old Aisner was recruited in January 1943 by an SOE officer to rent apartments for arriving SOE agents, welcome them to Paris and provide them with false documents—identity cards, ration cards, and work permits—that she obtained.