Liza Mundy
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| Born | July 8, 1960 Roanoke, Virginia, U.S. |
| Education | Princeton University (BA) University of Virginia (MA) |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
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Liza Mundy (born July 8, 1960)[1] is an American journalist, non-fiction writer, and fellow at New America Foundation.[2]
She has written a number of books and her writings have also appeared in The Atlantic,[3] Politico, The New York Times, The New Republic, Slate,[4] The Guardian,[5] and The Washington Post.[6]
Books
[edit]Code Girls
[edit]Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II documents the work of thousands of female American codebreakers during World War II,[7] including top analysts such as Elizebeth Friedman and Agnes Driscoll, lesser known but outstanding contributors like Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein and Ann Zeilinger Caracristi, and many others. It received positive reviews in The New York Times,[7] The Washington Post,[8] and The Christian Science Monitor, though the Monitor also states that "Mundy doesn't entirely succeed in deciphering the extraordinary complexity of codes and cryptography for layperson readers. It can be hard to understand exactly how codes were created and cracked."[9] Smithsonian ranked it one of the ten best science books of 2017.[10]
The Sisterhood
[edit]In The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA, she documents the women of the Central Intelligence Agency, and their careers, including Eloise Randolph Page.[11] She interviewed CIA officers to tell their stories.[12] They were instrumental in building the threat assessment of Al-Qaeda before the September 11 attacks.[13][14]
Bibliography
[edit]- The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA. Crown. 2023. ISBN 9780593238172.
- Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II. Hachette Books. 2017. ISBN 9780316352550.[15][16][17]
- Michelle: A Biography. Simon and Schuster. 2009-04-28. ISBN 9781439159323.
- The Richer Sex: How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners Is Transforming Our Culture. Simon and Schuster. 2013-03-19. ISBN 9781439197721.[18]
- Everything Conceivable: How Assisted Reproduction Is Changing Our World. Anchor Books. 2008. ISBN 9781400095377.
Personal life
[edit]She married mechanical engineer, science communicator, and television presenter Bill Nye in 2022.[19]
References
[edit]- ^ Peake, Amber (22 June 2022). "Who Is Bill Nye's Wife Liza Mundy? Meet the Science Guy's Other Half". HITC. Retrieved 24 June 2022.
- ^ "Liza Mundy". New America. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
- ^ Mundy, Liza. "Liza Mundy". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2017-10-17.
- ^ "Liza Mundy". Slate. Retrieved 2017-10-17.
- ^ "Liza Mundy". The Guardian. Retrieved 2017-10-17.
- ^ "Liza Mundy". The Washington Post. 2012-04-13. Retrieved 2017-10-17.
- ^ a b Gordon, Meryl (6 November 2017). "The Women Who Helped America Crack Axis Codes". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
- ^ Showalter, Elaine (6 October 2017). "The brilliance of the women code breakers of World War II". The Washington Post. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
- ^ "'Code Girls' tells the captivating story of America's female World War II codebreakers". The Christian Science Monitor. 12 October 2017. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
- ^ Gross, Rachel E. (5 December 2017). "The Ten Best Science Books of 2017". Smithsonian. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
- ^ "How the CIA's top-ranking woman beat the agency's men at their own game". Washington Post. 2023-10-21. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2024-02-04.
- ^ "The Secret History of Women in the C.I.A." airmail.news. Retrieved 2024-02-04.
- ^ Mundy, Liza (2023-11-18). "The Women Who Saw 9/11 Coming". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2024-02-04.
- ^ Kahn, Mattie (2023-10-18). "Infiltrating the Ultimate Boys' Club — With Spycraft". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-02-04.
- ^ Wei-Haas, Maya. "How the American Women Codebreakers of WWII Helped Win the War". Smithsonian. Retrieved 2017-10-17.
- ^ CODE GIRLS by Liza Mundy.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ "Nonfiction Book Review: Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy. Hachette, $28 (400p) ISBN 978-0-316-35253-6". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2017-10-17.
- ^ Shteir, Rachel (2012-04-13). "'The Richer Sex,' by Liza Mundy". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-10-17.
- ^ "Bill Nye is Married! The Science Guy Star Weds Journalist Liza Mundy".
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