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Gloria Steinem

Biography

Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem is a writer, lecturer, editor and feminist activist. In 1972, she co-founded Ms. magazine, and she remained one of its editors for 15 years. In 1968, she helped found New York magazine, where she was a political columnist and wrote feature articles. Her books include the bestsellers REVOLUTION FROM WITHIN, OUTRAGEOUS ACTS AND EVERYDAY REBELLIONS, MOVING BEYOND WORDS, MARILYN: Norma Jeane and AS IF WOMEN MATTER (published in India). Steinem has received the Penney-Missouri Journalism Award, the Front Page and Clarion awards, the National Magazine Award, the Women’s Sports Journalism Award, the Lifetime Achievement in Journalism Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Society of Writers Award from the United Nations, the James Weldon Johnson Award for Journalism, and many others. In 2013, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama.

Gloria Steinem

Books by Gloria Steinem

by Gloria Steinem - Memoir, Nonfiction
Gloria Steinem had an itinerant childhood. Every fall, her father would pack the family into the car and they would drive across the country, in search of their next adventure. Steinem would spend much of her life on the road, as a journalist, organizer, activist and speaker. In vivid stories that span an entire career, Steinem writes about her time on the campaign trail; her early exposure to social activism in India; organizing ground-up movements in America; and the infinite contrasts, the “surrealism in everyday life” that Steinem encountered as she traveled back and forth across the country.