Martha Ackmann is a journalist and author who writes about women who have changed America. <\/p>\n","content":"\n
MARTHA ACKMANN<\/strong> (Author of Original Book) is is a journalist and author who writes about women who have changed America. Her op-eds and columns have appeared in The New York Times<\/em>, The Boston Globe<\/em>, the Chicago Tribune<\/em>, the Los Angeles Times<\/em> and many others. She is a frequent commentator for New England Public Radio. Ackmann\u2019s books include The Mercury 13: The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight, Curveball: The Remarkable Story of Toni Stone<\/em>, and, coming in February 2020, These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Ackmann was the Augustus Anson Whitney Scholar in Non-Fiction at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. She holds a BA from Lindenwood College, an MA from Middlebury College\u2019s Bread Loaf School of English and a Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts. A long-time member of the faculty at Mount Holyoke College, Martha Ackmann lives in western Massachusetts.<\/p>\n","website":"","alt":""}