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CRRL Picks: Nobel Women

Books about some of the fascinating women who have won the Nobel Prize.

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  • Mother Teresa

    Come Be My Light : the Private Writings of the "Saint of Calcutta"

    Teresa, Mother, 1910-1997
    “This collection of her writing and reflections, almost all of which have never been made public before, sheds light on Mother Teresa's interior life in a way that reveals the depth and intensity of her holiness for the first time. A moving…
    Book, 2007New York : Doubleday, [2007], ©2007. — 921 Teres
  • Nobel Prize Women in Science

    Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries

    McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch
    "This book tells the stories of the lives and achievements of fifteen women scientists who either won a Nobel Prize or played a crucial role in a Nobel Prize-winning project... reveals the relentless discrimination these women faced both as…
    eBook, 1998Washington, D.C. : Joseph Henry Press, [1998], ©1998. — 920 Mc
  • Obsessive Genius

    the Inner World of Marie Curie

    Goldsmith, Barbara
    “The myth of Marie Curie—the penniless Polish immigrant who, through genius and obsessive persistence, endured years of toil and deprivation to produce radium, a luminous panacea for all the world's ills including cancer—has obscured the remarkable…
    Book, 2005New York : W.W. Norton, [2005], ©2005. — 921 Curie
  • Pearl Buck in China

    Journey to The Good Earth

    Spurling, Hilary
    “She was the child of American missionaries, but she spoke Chinese before she learned English, and her friends were the children of Chinese farmers. She took it for granted that she was Chinese herself until she was eight years old, when the…
    Book, 2010New York : Simon & Schuster, 2010. — 921 Buck
  • Telling Times

    Writing and Living, 1954-2008

    Gordimer, Nadine
    “…represents the full span of her works … from the twilight of white rule in South Africa to the fight to overthrow the apartheid regime, and most recently, her role over the past seven years in confronting the contemporary phenomena of violence and…
    Book, 2010New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2010. — 828 Go
  • Originally published in 1910, this was Jane Addams' most successful book. Now regarded as a classic of American social history, this first annotated edition is issued on the occasion of the Hull-House centennial.
    eBook, 1990Champaign, Ill. : Project Gutenberg, [between 1990 and 1999?] — FICTION Add
  • The recipient of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize describes her life as a feminist, political activist, and environmentalist in Kenya, detailing the 1977 establishment of the Green Belt Movement and her role in the transformation of Kenya's government.
    Book, 2007New York : Anchor Books, 2007. — 921 Maath
  • “The commanding voice of Morrison's essays, speeches and reviews offers compelling insights into family, history, other writers and politics. The pieces span from 1971, when Morrison was an editor at Random House, to 2002, the year she won the Nobel…
    Book, 2008Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2008], ©2008. — 818 Mo
  • Winners

    Women and the Nobel Prize

    Shiels, Barbara
    Though copyrighted in 1985, this book still is useful for it contains biographies of eight women who have won the Prize to that date.
    Book, 1985Minneapolis, Minn. : Dillon Press, [1985], ©1985. — 920 SH