A to Z of American Women in the Performing Arts

A to Z of American Women in the Performing Arts
Author: Liz Sonneborn
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2014-05-14
Genre: United States
ISBN: 1438107900

Presents biographical profiles of 150 American women of achievement in the field of performing arts, including birth and death dates, major accomplishments, and historical influence.

A to Z of American Women in the Visual Arts

A to Z of American Women in the Visual Arts
Author: Carol Kort
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2014-05-14
Genre: Art, American
ISBN: 1438107919

Presents biographical profiles of American women of achievement in the field of visual arts, including birth and death dates, major accomplishments, and historical influence.

American Women in the Performing Arts

American Women in the Performing Arts
Author: Liz Sonneborn
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020
Genre: United States
ISBN: 9781787854291

A to Z of American Women in the Performing Arts, Second Edition is an engaging resource that provides readers with insightful, up-to-date biographiesof select women in the performing arts from the 19th century to the present.

A to Z of American Women Writers

A to Z of American Women Writers
Author: Carol Kort
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2014-05-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1438107935

Presents a biographical dictionary profiling important women authors, including birth and death dates, accomplishments and bibliography of each author's work.

Notable American Women

Notable American Women
Author: Susan Ware
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 784
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780674014886

This latest volume brings the project up to date, with entries on almost 500 women whose death dates fall between 1976 and 1999. You will find here stars of the golden ages of radio, film, dance, and television; scientists and scholars; civil rights activists and religious leaders; Native American craftspeople and world-renowned artists. For each subject, the volume offers a biographical essay by a distinguished authority that integrates the woman's personal life with her professional achievements set in the context of larger historical developments.

Limitless

Limitless
Author: Leah Tinari
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2018-11-06
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1534418563

In the spirit of She Persisted, Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls, and Rad American A-Z, acclaimed artist Leah Tinari offers a spectacular collection of portraits, celebrating iconic, inspirational, and groundbreaking American women. Fine artist Leah Tinari’s stunning, spellbinding portraits honor the groundbreaking achievements and indelible impact of twenty-four extraordinary American women. These women’s dreams were without boundaries; their accomplishments limitless in their reach and lasting power. Tinari’s list is comprised of trailblazers, whose vision, grit, and guts paved the way not only for the generations to come, but for Tinari’s own artistic journey. These women include Louisa May Alcott, Rachel Carson, Julia Child, Shirley Chisholm, Ellen Degeneres, Ray Eames, Eve Ensler, Carrie Fisher, Dian Fossey, Aretha Franklin, Betsey Johnson, Carol Kaye, Yuri Kochiyama, Liz Lambert, Lozen, Shirley Muldowney, Tracey Norman, Annie Oakley, Georgia O’Keefe, Dolly Parton, Kimberly Pierce, Gilda Radner, Sojourner Truth, and Abby Wambach. Their contributions to the arts, education, science, politics, civil rights, fashion, design, technology, and sports are enduring and noteworthy. Courage, perseverance, brilliance, and passion were the guiding, groundbreaking principles for these diverse women who span the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.