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Born April 12, 1916, making her 102 years old.

Source: The Writer's Directory (2018)

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Cleary grew up on a farm in Yamhill, Oregon, an experience Cleary described in her autobiographical work, A Girl from Yamhill.

Source: Authors and Artists for Young Adults (2005)

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Born on October 15, 1974, in Omaha, Nebraska

Source: Contemporary Black Biography, 2017

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Was awarded the Pushcart Prize for her poem "Indian Boarding School" in 1983 and then won multiple awards for her novel "Love Medicine" in 1984.

Source: Newsmakers (2005)

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Born  Oct. 5, 1958, making him 60 years old.

Source: Contemporary Black Biography (2008)

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Jesmyn Ward won the National Book Award for fiction for ''Sing, Unburied, Sing''

Source: The New York Times (Nov. 16, 2017)

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Born in 1977, making her 41 years old.

Source: Contemporary Black Biography (2018)

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The Round House 2012
Source: Newsmaker Biography, 2005.

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She was born on November 3rd, 1947 in Fukushima, Japan.

Source: Gale Biography in context, 2012.

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Hirono immigrated from Japan to Hawaii at a young age.

Source:  "Mazie Hirono." Newsmakers, vol. 4, Gale, 2014. Biography In Context, Accessed 26 Sept. 2018.

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Born on August 10, 1952 in Tallahassee, Florida.

Source: Contemporary Black Biography (2005).

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Eldest of three children of Haitian immigrants

Source: Contemporary Black Biography, 2017

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Grew up in Chicago, earned undergrad at Roosevelt University.

Earned two Ph.D.s from the University of Chicago's Graduate Library School.

Source: Contemporary Black Biography (2005).

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In 2011 her novel Salvage the Bones won the National Book Award for fiction.

Source: Contemporary Black Biography. 2018

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(Editor) Girl Crush: Women's Erotic Fantasies, Cleis Press, 2010.

Ayiti, Artistically Declined Press, 2011.

An Untamed State, Black Cat, 2014.

Bad Feminist: Essays, Harper Perennial, 2014.

Source: Contemporary Black Biography, 2017

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She was born in DeLisle, Mississippi. Her father left the family when Ward was a child, leaving her mother to care for the family.

Her mother's employer's offered to pay for her tuition at an elite private Episcopal school. She earned a master's degree in media studies and communication and a bachelor's degree in English from Standford University.

Source: Contemporary Black Biography (2018)

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Master's degree in English with an emphasis in creative writing from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, followed by a doctorate in rhetoric and technical communication from Michigan Technological University in 2010.

Source: Contemporary Black Biography, 2017

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Born June 07, 1954 (64) to a  Chippewa mother and a German American father. Oldest of seven children.

Source:  "Louise Erdrich." St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, Gale, 2013. Biography In Context,

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At age 12, dated a boy from school who ended up betraying her, leading her to an abandoned hunting cabin in the woods where he and his friends held her against her will and sexually assaulted her.
Source: Contemporary Black Biography, 2017

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Entered Phillips Exeter Academy at age 13, an elite prep school in New Hampshire.

Source: Newsmakers. 2017.

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College teacher at Purdue University

Source: The Writers Directory. 2018.

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Tyson is a leading ambassador for science education.

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Tyson is a leading ambassador for science education.

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Source: "Neil deGrasse Tyson." Contemporary Black Biography, vol. 65, Gale, 2008.

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Moved up from deputy attorney general,  ran for Hawaii House in 1980 and ran for lieutenant governor in 1994 but lost

Source: Gale Biography in context, 2012.

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She is the first woman to win two National Book Awards for fiction.

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She is the first woman to win two National Book Awards for fiction.

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Source: States New Service. (Dec. 11, 2017)

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Won the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction in 2015.

Source: New York Times (2015)

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Became a postdoctoral associate for the astrophysics department at Princeton University in 1991

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Became a postdoctoral associate for the astrophysics department at Princeton University in 1991

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Source: "Neil deGrasse Tyson." Contemporary Black Biography, vol. 65, Gale, 2008.

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For five years beginning in 1982, she worked for the Museum of Science Industry as the library services coordinator (Contemporary Black Biography, 2005).

On Sept. 14, 2016, she was sworn in to lead the Library of Congress as the first woman and first African American. She openly challenged the USA Patriot Act (Contemporary Black Biography, 2017).

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Hirono is focused on promoting Women's issues and was the first Buddhist, Asian-American Woman to be elected into the Senate.

Source: Gale Biography in Context, 2014

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"Unlike my last novel, Sing, Unburied, Sing required a lot of research. As a child, I knew the prison existed, but I knew nothing about its past. I learned about its history when I first started writing the novel"

Source: Interview
Bostrom, Annie. "JESMYN WARD." Booklist, 15 Dec. 2017, p. 29

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She was encouraged to go to school by her father and his architecture staff at Armagh Observatory.

After earning a B.S. in physics at the University of Glasgow, she started to work on her Ph.D. at Cambridge University. She built an 81.5-megahertz radio telescope.

Source: "Susan Jocelyn Burnell." Encyclopedia of World Biography, Gale, 1998.

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Born on July 15, 1943 in Belfast, Ireland

Source: "Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell." Encyclopedia of World Biography, Gale, 1998.

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Freedom to Write Award, PEN Center USA, 2015.

Source: Contemporary Black Biography, 2017

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In 1967 Burnell received the Nobel Prize in physics for her discovery of pulsars.

Burnell surveyed a large area of the sky in history. In doing so she discovered Pulsar or previously known as "Bell's Star"

After receiving the Novel prize, Sir Fred Hoyle argued the winning of the prize and believed it should be shared.

"Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell." Encyclopedia of World Biography, Gale, 1998.

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Started in the position as an assistant astronomer. As a director employed $210 million in reconstructions.

Source: "Neil deGrasse Tyson." Contemporary Black Biography, vol. 65, Gale, 2008.

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In 2000, her younger brother Joshua was killed by a drunk driver and she felt the need to write. She received a master's degree in fine arts from the University of Michigan.

Source: Contemporary Black Biography

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Was part of Dartmouth College's first coeducational graduating class, where she got her Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1976. She later earned her Master of Arts in writing at Johns Hopkins in 1979.

Source: Newsmakers (2005)

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Her latest being The Red Convertible: Selected and New Stories
Source: Contemporary Authors Online, 2018.

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Strauss Living for literary excellence award

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Strauss Living for literary excellence award

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Award-winning author Jesmyn Ward, an associate professor of English at Tulane University, has been named one of two winners of the prestigious Strauss Living for literary excellence

Source: States News Service. (Jan. 22, 2016)

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Her latest novel has been compared to the Handmaids Tale

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Her latest novel has been compared to the Handmaids Tale

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She started writing the book in 2002 after the Patriot Act was signed into law.

Source: St. Louis Dispatch (12 Nov, 2017)

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Hirono has been vocal in the Kavanaugh case

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Hirono has been vocal in the Kavanaugh case

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She has stated she will vote against the Supreme Court Nominee.
Source: All Things Considered (NPR), 09/17/2018

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Review: 'Hunger' by Roxane Gay

Kephart, Beth.TCA Regional News; Chicago [Chicago]03 July 2017.

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In 1976, there was an equal number of male and female Native Americans enrolled in undergraduate colleges, but by 2010 there is a 35,000 difference of  male and females.

Source: NCES, Digest of Education Statistics (2017)

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Gay recently became the first black woman to write for Marvel Comics.

Source: US Newsstream Spata, Christopher.Tampa Bay Times (Online), Tampa Bay: Times Publishing Company. Aug 8, 2018

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Burnell recently won a Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for her work with Pulsars.

She has now decided to donate her $3 million winnings back in to the field to help out the younger generation.

Source: Jocelyn Bell Burnell to give away $3 million physics prize, 2018.

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Bell Burnell's work was originally discredited when she wasn't given the Nobel Prize in 1974 and her male colleagues were.

Source: Woman behind 1967 Nobel work finally recognized as top scientist with breakthrough prize, awarded $3 million. USA Today

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Her new novel "Sing, Unburied, Sing" is about an African-American family challenged with dissolution. The book is based on a car trip to prison to pick up the white father.

Source: Charles, Ron. Washington Post Aug. 29, 2017

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CEO of Enoch Pratt Free Library. (Carla Hayden: My Desk, My Life, Baltimore Sun, 2010.)

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Published her first comic in November, “World of Wakanda,” a prequel to the “Black Panthers” series.

Source: US Newsstream University Wire; Carlsbad [Carlsbad]04 Oct 2017.

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The summit of Mauna Kea, in Hawaii, 14,000 feet up in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The most powerful optical telescopes in the world are there.

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pepperoni pizza and a strawberry malted milkshake

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"I put his denial in the context of everything that I know about him in terms of how he approaches cases."
Source: The Wall Street Journal, Sept. 26, 2018.

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Moderated a conversation with former U.S. First Lady Michelle in June of 2018 during the Opening General Session of the 2018 ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition (Targeted News Service, 2018).

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wrote a slim book on "Astrophysics for People in a Hurry"

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There are more public school librarians than any other type with 78,570. and public libraries only have 46,808. Academic libraries have 26,606 as of 2015.(Libraries in the U.S., 2016).

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As of 2017, women made up only 21% of Representatives in the Senate.

Source: Pew Research Center, 2018

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6,000 Native American graduated in 1980 compared to the 1,352,400 whites.

Source: NCES, Digest of Education Statistics 2017