Two feature films have been released in recent months telling the stories of the lives of historical women – Judy and Harriet – about Judy Garland and Harriet Tubman, respectively. In addition, a documentary has qualified for Oscar consideration of another historical women – Marilyn Van Derbur Atler – an incest survivor whose documentary is titled Miss America by Day.
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Sometimes we’ll read a book or hear a story and think: “This ought to be made into a movie.” There are quite a number of women authors whose books have been made into movies – movies that we know and love!
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Two feature films and one documentary released in 2019 have featured women who are among those profiled in our book. The film titles are Judy, Harriet and Miss America By Day, whose subjects are Judy Garland, Harriet Tubman and Marilyn Van Derbur Atler, respectively. Let’s learn a little about each of these outstanding women.
Harriet Tubman escaped slavery and lived in Philadelphia. Prior to the Civil War, she is estimated to have gone back to Maryland nineteen times and rescued 300 people from slavery.
Women participate in every area of society, including in the arts and culture. Women ballerinas are a key component of the art form. In addition, women have laid the foundation for, developed and innovated in the art form of modern dance.
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Toni Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, as well as the Nobel Prize in Literature. The first black woman of any nationality to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, her citation reads “who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality.” As a tribute to Morrison who died in August of this year at age 88, we feature other women who have won the Pulitzer Prize: Edith Wharton and Margaret Mitchell. The Pulitzer Prizes were established by newspaper journalist Joseph Pulitzer. They honor excellence in writing, the arts, drama and music.
Writer Edith Wharton wrote novels, short stories and plays; she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize. That occurred in 1921 for her novel The Age of Innocence.