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Sonia Purnell
British
Sonia Purnell is a British writer and journalist who has worked at The Economist, The Daily Telegraph, and The Sunday Times. Her books include Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill, which was chosen as book of the year by The Telegraph and The Independent, and was a finalist for the Plutarch Award. She also wrote The Kingmaker, a biography or Pamela Harriman.
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Martin Gilbert
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Martin Gilbert's Churchill details the wartime London command decisions that shaped the Second World War environment explored in Purnell's biography.
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Yeonmi Park
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Yeonmi Park’s In Order to Live shares Purnell's propulsive focus on a woman facing extreme danger under a brutal regime, told as a first-person survival account.
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Maryanne Vollers
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Maryanne Vollers’s In Order to Live shares Sonia Purnell’s focus on women facing extreme danger under brutal systems, presented as a fast-paced survival account.
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Maureen Callahan
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Maureen Callahan's Ask Not shares Sonia Purnell's focus on women erased or obscured by powerful institutions.
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Tilar J. Mazzeo
History
Biography & Memoir
Tilar J. Mazzeo's Eliza Hamilton shares Sonia Purnell's revisionist energy, rescuing another consequential woman from footnote status.
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Glennon Doyle
Biography & Memoir
Glennon Doyle’s Untamed shares the focus on a woman rewriting her own story through sheer refusal to accept the role assigned to her by institutions.
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