While there are several exceptional options for books written about and by women who are journalists these are the ones from our collections.
Nonfiction
- Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s History-Making Race Around the World by Matthew Goodman
- I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
- Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem by Gloria Steinem
- Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
- The Unspeakable And Other Subjects of Discussion by Meghan Daum
- Color: A Natural History of the Palette by Victoria Finlay
- Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- Audition: A Memoir by Barbara Walters
- Personal History by Katharine Graham
- Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions by Gloria Steinem
- This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America by Morgan Jerkins
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