Women’s History Month
Women’s History Month comes to an end, again
As always, I have mixed feeling about the end of Women’s History Month. As always, I’ve loved running this series of mini-interviews with people doing interesting work in the field of women’s history. I hope you’ve enjoyed it, too. Over the last few months[1] I’ve had a chance to interact with some of my history-writing…
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Talking About Women’s History: Three Questions with Della Leavitt
I am delighted to wrap up this year’s Women’s History Month Q & A series with Della Leavitt. She and I have been following each other around the writing world, on-line and in real life, for a long time. After careers in tech and math education, Della began an intensive DIY study of writing fiction…
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From the Archives. Talking About Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Dava Sobels
Every year I gather up my courage to invite at least one writer whom I do not know and whose work is extraordinary. This year that writer was Dava Sobel. I fan-girled all over the house when she said yes. Dava Sobel is the author of Longitude (Walker 1995, Bloomsbury 2005), Galileo’s Daughter (Walker 1999…
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