American Women
in Biography & Nonfiction

Bella Abzug, politician, activist for human rights, women’s rights, social reform
Bella Abzug: How One Tough Broad from the Bronx Fought Jim Crow and Joe McCarthy, Pissed Off Jimmy Carter, Battled for the Rights of Women and Workers, Rallied against War and for the Planet, and Shook Up Politics along the Way: An Oral History
Suzanne Braun Levine and Mary Thom  328 LEV

Jane Addams, social worker, Nobel Peace Prize winner
Jane Addams: Spirit in Action
Louise W. Knight  B ADDAMS

Madeleine Albright, diplomat, stateswoman
Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat’s Jewel Box
Madeleine Korbel Albright  391.7 ALB

Doris Buffet, humanitarian, philanthropist
Giving It All Away: The Doris Buffet Story
Michael Zitz  361.74 ZIT

Rachel Carson, marine biologist, environmentalist, author
On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson
William Souder  B CARSON

Dorothy Day, social reformer
All is Grace: The Spirituality of Dorothy Day
William D. Miller  267.182 MIL

Emily Dickinson, poet
My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson
Alfred Habegger  B DICKINSON

Amelia Earhart, aviator
Amelia Earhart: The Turbulent Life of an American Icon
Kathleen C. Winters  B EARHART

Drew Gilpin Faust, educator, first woman president of Harvard University
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
Drew Gilpin Faust  973.71 FAU

Katharine Graham, writer, publisher
Katharine Graham: The Leadership Journey of an American Icon
Robin Gerber  070.5 GER

Dorothea Lange, photographer
Daring To Look: Dorothea Lange’s Photographs and Reports from the Field
Anne Whiston Spirn  770 SPI

Harper Lee, author
Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee
Charles J. Shields  B LEE

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author
Against Wind and Tide: Letters and Journals, 1947 – 1986
Anne Morrow Lindbergh  818.52 LIN

Margaret Mead, anthropologist, author
To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected Letters of Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead  301.092 MEA

Inez Milholland, suffragist, feminist
Inez: The Life and Times of Inez Milholland
Linda J. Lumsden  B MILHOLLAND

Sandra Day O’Connor, Supreme Court Justice
Lazy B: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest
Sandra Day O’Connor  347.732634 OCO

Georgia O’Keeffe, artist
Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O’Keeffe
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp  B OKEEFFE

Frances Perkins, stateswoman, social reformer
The Woman behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR’s Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience
Kirstin Downey  B PERKINS

Eleanor Roosevelt, first lady, humanitarian
The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt  B ROOSEVELT

Harriet Beecher Stowe, author, abolitionist
Stowe in Her Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of Her Life, Drawn from Recollection, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates
edited by Susan Belasco  813.3 STO

Helen Thomas, journalist
Thanks for the Memories, Mr. President: Wit and Wisdom from the Front Row at the White House
Helen Thomas  070.4 THO

Sojourner Truth, abolitionist, human rights activist
Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol
Nell Irvin Painter  B TRUTH

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