Literary Witches

Taisia Kitaiskaia

An illustrated celebration of women writers who have enchanted generations and transformed the world: Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Octavia Butler, Sappho, Audre Lorde, Anaïs Nin, Toni Morrison, Emily Brontë, and more:

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II

Liza Mundy

The untold story of the women codebreakers who fought the Nazis at the intersection of language and mathematics:

Seduced by Logic: Émilie Du Châtelet, Mary Somerville and the Newtonian Revolution

Robyn Arianrhod

“One must know what one wants to be. In the latter endeavors irresolution produces false steps, and in the life of the mind confused ideas.”

Trailblazing 18th-century mathematician, who popularized Newton and paved the way for women in science, on gender and the nature of genius:

The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars

Dava Sobel

The remarkable story of how a team of 19th-century female astronomers revolutionized our understanding of the universe decades before women were allowed to vote:

Nobel Lectures: From the Literature Laureates, 1986 to 2006

“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”

When Toni Morrison became the first African American woman awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, she delivered this magnificent speech on the power of language:

Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie

Barbara Goldsmith

Marie Curie, ambulance driver – the little-known story of the trailblazing scientist’s humanitarian heroism and her life-saving mobile X-ray units: