A list of books about the zeitgeist in America (as of early 2025)
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Unfinished, obviously.
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Last updated: 2024-12-03
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Last updated: 2025-02-15
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## Art
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- [Aphra Behn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphra_Behn): one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing
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- [Julian of Norwich](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_of_Norwich): author of *Revelations of Divine Love*, the earliest surviving English-language works attributed to a woman
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- [Lucy Terry Prince](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Terry): author of *Bars Fight*, the oldest known work of literature by an African American
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- [Lotte Reiniger](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotte_Reiniger): director/writer of the oldest surviving animated feature film, [_The Adventures of Prince Achmed_](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Prince_Achmed)
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- [Jane Johnston Schoolcraft](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Johnston_Schoolcraft): one of the earliet known Native American literary writers
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- [Mary Shelley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley): novelist and pioneer of the science fiction genre of books
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- [Murasaki Shikibu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murasaki_Shikibu): wrote the first novel, *The Tale of Genji*
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- [Pamela Colman Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Colman_Smith): illustrator of the iconic Rider-Waite tarot deck
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- [Martha Gellhorn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Gellhorn): journalist and WWII war correspondent; pretended to be a nurse to be the only woman at Normandy on D-Day
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- [Helen Lewis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Lewis_(journalist)): journalist and namesake of "Lewis' Law": "the comments on any article about feminism justify feminism"
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- [Elizabeth Magie](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_Maggie): created the progenitor to the *Monopoly* board game
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- [Milunka Savić](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milunka_Savi%C4%87): most-decorated female combatant in the known history of warfare
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- [Rose Valland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Valland): captain in the French military during WWII; saved thousands of works of art from being stolen by the Nazis
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- [Madam C. J. Walker](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Madam_C._J._Walker?lang=en): entrepreneur and first female self-made millionaire in the USA
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