Arianna Huffington
Greek American writer Arianna Huffington co-founded the eponymous Huffington Post news site in 2005
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Elizabeth Strout
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist
Shirley Shackleton
Australia’s Shirley Shackleton became an activist after the 1975 murder of her husband, journalist Greg Shackleton.
Tig Notaro
American comedian
Zarna Garg
Indian-American comedian
Leslie Jones
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
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.”