Women in History

Nonfiction

Joy Goddess of Harlem: A’Lelia Walker’s Dazzling Life at the Heart of the Renaissance

Romance eluded her, friends betrayed her, and she lacked her mother’s sharp instincts for business and philanthropy. But the heiress with intense eyes and fabulous style, who loved poetry and parties, turned out to be one of the twentieth century’s intriguing protagonists. She was A’Lelia Walker, the subject of an…

Claudia KeenanAugust 8, 2025

Business Nonfiction

“She-Wolves” Sheds Light on Untold Stories of Women in Finance

Like many other American institutions, Wall Street began as a “boys-only” club. Since the 1960s, “female pioneers” have been pushing their way into Wall Street’s bad-boy culture and the lavish opulence of this historically male domain. In SHE-WOLVES: The Untold History of Women on Wall Street (WW Norton), award-winning historian…

BookTribApril 5, 2025

Fiction

Meet a Trailblazer, Tennis Champion and Spy in New Historical Fiction

With a flair for mining out remarkable women from obscurity in history, Jenny L. Walsh has once again unearthed the extraordinary in her latest novel Ace, Marvel, Spy. Alice Marble was a trailblazer, tennis champion, spy, and overall American icon. I’ll be the first to admit that I had never…

J'nell CiesielskiJanuary 3, 2025

Nonfiction Podcasts

Books & Looks Podcast: The Untold Story of Prohibition’s Leading Ladies with Gioia Diliberto

Books & Looks: Real Books for Real Readers was started as a literary podcast to supplement Blaine Desantis’ website, ViewsOnBooks.com, and expand into audio and video interviews with authors. With Books & Looks, Blaine’s goal is to focus on real books that real people will read. At least half of the books he…

Blaine DesantisDecember 18, 2024

Nonfiction Podcasts

Books & Looks Podcast: Abbott Kahler’s “Eden Undone”: Sex, Murder and the Search for Utopia

Books & Looks: Real Books for Real Readers was started as a literary podcast to supplement Blaine Desantis’ website, ViewsOnBooks.com, and expand into audio and video interviews with authors. With Books & Looks, Blaine’s goal is to focus on real books that real people will read. At least half of the books he…

Blaine DesantisNovember 13, 2024

Miscellany

Giving a Name to the Nameless in History

In the early days of the Jamestown colony, a woman was murdered and cannibalized by her husband. In the written accounts she is never named other than by her husband's name. The infamous John Smith even jokes about the manor and motivation for her death: "And one amongst the rest…

Alena BruzasOctober 30, 2024

Nonfiction Podcasts

Books & Looks Podcast: The Duchess of Diamonds: Annie Reed Uncovers Gilded Age Grifter

Books & Looks: Real Books for Real Readers was started as a literary podcast to supplement Blaine Desantis’ website, ViewsOnBooks.com, and expand into audio and video interviews with authors. With Books & Looks, Blaine’s goal is to focus on real books that real people will read. At least half of the books he…

Blaine DesantisSeptember 25, 2024

Nonfiction Podcasts

Books & Looks Podcast: Racing the Clock and Each Other: The Globe Trotting Journalists Who Defied an Era

Books & Looks: Real Books for Real Readers was started as a podcast to supplement Blaine Desantis’ website, ViewsOnBooks.com, and expand into audio interviews with authors. With Books & Looks, Blaine’s goal is to focus on real books that real people will read. At least half of the books he reviews are either…

Blaine DesantisOctober 4, 2023

Nonfiction

Jewish Woman Rescues Thousands in Nazi Poland in Unknown, Unforgettable Story

Elizabeth B. White and Joanna Sliwa are historians, Holocaust scholars and co-authors of The Counterfeit Countess, subtitled The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust. They are to be congratulated for recognizing the significance of an unpublished memoir and bringing to light Janina Mehlberg’s extraordinary efforts to…

Linda HitchcockMarch 11, 2024

Nonfiction

Way Back in the Twentieth Century: A Tale of Fashion, Influence & Vision

Three women, three stores and a vanished world. You may be lucky enough to remember Lord & Taylor, Bonwit Teller and Henri Bendel — fabulous emporiums that drew elegant women shoppers from all over the world. Alas, times changed and the stores declined. Malls, catalogues, discount stores and the internet…

Claudia KeenanJune 3, 2024

Nonfiction

Inspiring Tribute to America’s Little-Known Trailblazing Female Journalists

Kim Todd is a multiple award-winning author and college instructor who has written a meticulously researched work of nonfiction, Sensational: The Hidden History of America’s “Girl Stunt Reporters” (Harper Perennial). This compelling history of little-known late 19th-century journalists achieves the perfect balance between entertainment and education. Writing under pseudonyms, these…

Linda HitchcockMay 30, 2023

Douglas Preston The Lost Tomb by Douglas Preston

Miscellany Nonfiction

Douglas Preston Proves Truth is Sometimes Stranger Than Fiction in “The Lost Tomb”

Douglas Preston may be most well-known for his bestselling fiction — both his solo projects and the series he co-writes with Lincoln Child — but the prolific author is also a renowned journalist and established nonfiction writer. With his latest book release, Preston introduces readers to this side of his…

Dawn IusDecember 22, 2023

Nonfiction

Engrossing Account of the Dazzling Actresses in Hitchcock’s Legendary Films

Searching for gift ideas for an upcoming holiday, birthday or a film awards show party? Look no further as vaunted best-selling nonfiction and biography author Laurence Leamer has penned a gem with Hitchcock’s Blondes (G.P. Putnam's Sons). It’s subtitled The Unforgettable Women Behind the Legendary Director’s Dark Obsession. If there…

Linda HitchcockNovember 6, 2023

Nonfiction Recommended

Murder, Mayhem & Sex Cults in 19th Century True Crime Odyssey

Even if you’re no expert on American history, you will have your finger on its pulse while reading An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President’s Murder (Pegasus Crime). The third book by journalist Susan Wels, whose bestseller on the Titanic appeared in…

Claudia KeenanFebruary 6, 2023

Nonfiction

A Wreck of a Life: Deadly Intersection of Wealth, Eugenics and Womanhood

Twentieth-century America brimmed with stories about poor little rich girls: young women born into great wealth yet afflicted with miserable childhoods and marriages. Tales of unhappy heiresses stirred the public’s voyeurism and sense of smugness. Just imagine — all the money in the world can’t make up for life’s disappointments!…

Claudia KeenanDecember 19, 2022

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

One Woman Recounts Her Survival from Auschwitz in This Powerful, Must-Read Story

One Hundred Saturdays (Avid Reader Press) is, quite simply, essential reading. Award-winning author Michael Frank has distilled six years of conversations between the now ninety-nine-year-old charming raconteur and inspirational Holocaust survivor Stella Levi into a slender yet powerful volume of memories of her life experiences. She was born in 1923…

Linda HitchcockSeptember 6, 2022

“She-Wolves” Sheds Light on Untold Stories of Women in Finance

Books & Looks Podcast: The Untold Story of Prohibition’s Leading Ladies with Gioia Diliberto

Books & Looks Podcast: Abbott Kahler’s “Eden Undone”: Sex, Murder and the Search for Utopia

Books & Looks Podcast: The Duchess of Diamonds: Annie Reed Uncovers Gilded Age Grifter

Books & Looks Podcast: Racing the Clock and Each Other: The Globe Trotting Journalists Who Defied an Era

Douglas Preston Proves Truth is Sometimes Stranger Than Fiction in “The Lost Tomb”

Murder, Mayhem & Sex Cults in 19th Century True Crime Odyssey

One Woman Recounts Her Survival from Auschwitz in This Powerful, Must-Read Story

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