From childhood books to convent scholarship and a defense of women's learning, follow Sor Juana's intellectual life in colonial New Spain.
From New Orleans streets to recording studios and world stages, follow Louis Armstrong’s music, collaborations, public voice and enduring recorded life.
Follow Mary Shelley from a house of writers to Frankenstein, later novels and the exacting work of preserving a literary life through loss and change.
Follow Chien-Shiung Wu from a girls’ school in China to the collaborative cobalt-60 experiment that overturned a trusted symmetry in physics.
From Bengali poems and river journeys to Santiniketan, the Nobel Prize and a letter of protest, follow Tagore’s search for a more open education.
Follow Harriet Tubman from Maryland slavery to repeated rescue journeys, Civil War service, voting-rights advocacy and a lifetime of community care.
From Basra to Cairo, Ibn al-Haytham investigates light, challenges inherited explanations of sight and leaves an optical legacy built on questions, geometry and evidence.
An illustrated biography follows Wangari Maathai from science classrooms to women-led tree nurseries and Kenya’s struggles for public space, rights and environmental care.
From Edo actor prints to The Great Wave and late paintings, Hokusai’s illustrated biography follows a lifetime of observation, reinvention and shared craft.
A 24-page illustrated biography follows Marie Curie from Warsaw to Paris, through radioactivity research, family, loss, teaching and wartime radiography.
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