In recognition of Women's History Month, the Academy of Achievement presents a selection of extraordinary women who have defied expectations,
broken boundaries, and made history around the world. They include courageous political leaders and human rights activists, recipients of the Nobel
Prize for Literature and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, award-winning actresses, musicians, screenwriters and film directors, as well as outstanding
athletes, educators, journalists, explorers, physicians, philanthropists, broadcasters and entrepreneurs. Their words and their...
This autumn, Natasha Trethewey took up her duties as
United States Poet Laureate, the 19th poet to serve since Congress created the
position in 1985. Also known as the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the
Library of Congress, the Laureate is responsible for all the public poetry programs
of...
Published 10/27/12
Louise Glück is “a strong and haunting presence” among America’s greatest living poets. Her work is distinguished by a rare ability to
deploy ostensibly simple language to evoke powerful emotion. While many of her poems clearly address the challenges of life and love in the contemporary...
Published 10/27/12
Born and raised in South Africa, Nadine Gordimer published her first short story in a children's magazine in 1937 at the age of 16. She left college without a degree and continued publishing short fiction in South African journals. She drew attention outside her country in 1951, when her stories...
Published 07/03/09