The Women Behind the Men

The women behind famous men in history, many of whom deserved the spotlight themselves.
Updated October 2, 2022
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The Paris Wife
Paula McLain
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A deeply evocative novel of ambition and betrayal that captures the love affair between two unforgettable people, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley--from the author of Love and Ruin and When the Stars Go Dark   "A beautiful...
The aviator's wife : [a novel] /
Benjamin, Melanie,
Paper Book
Loving Frank
Nancy Horan
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the author of The House of Lincoln, an "enthralling" novel that brings "the buried truths of the ill-starred relationship of Mamah Borthwick Cheney and Frank Lloyd Wright to light" (The New York Times Book Review). ...
Mrs Hemingway
Naomi Wood
Paper Book
Summer, 1926. Ernest Hemingway and his wife, Hadley, escape the blazing heat of Paris in a villa in the south of France, accompanied by the glamorous and irrepressible Fife, Hadley's best friend. Fife is also Ernest's lover. Hadley is the first Mrs. Hemingway, but neither she nor Fife will be the...
Under the Wide and Starry Sky
Nancy Horan
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK From Nancy Horan, New York Times bestselling author of Loving Frank, comes her much-anticipated second novel, which tells the improbable love story of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson and his...
The women : a novel /
Boyle, T. Coraghessan.
Paper Book
A dazzling novel of Frank Lloyd Wright, told from the point of view of the women in his life Having brought to life eccentric cereal king John Harvey Kellogg in The Road to Wellvilleand sex researcher Alfred Kinsey in The Inner Circle, T.C. Boyle now turns his...
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
Therese Anne Fowler
Paper Book
THE INSPIRATION FOR THE TELEVISION DRAMA Z: THE BEGINNING OF EVERYTHING With brilliant insight and imagination, Therese Anne Fowler's New York Times bestseller Z brings us Zelda's irresistible story as she herself might have told it. ...
Behind Every Great Man: The Forgotten Women Behind the World's Famous and Infamous
Marlene Wagman-Geller
Paper Book
Who Said Men Get to Monopolize the Glory? Discover the Little Known Women Who Have Put the World's Alpha Males on the Map. From ancient times to the present, men have gotten most of the good ink. Yet standing just outside the spotlight are the extraordinary, and overlooked,...
The Astronaut Wives Club: A True Story
Lily Koppel
Paper Book
As America's Mercury Seven astronauts were launched on death-defying missions, television cameras focused on the brave smiles of their young wives. Overnight, these women were transformed from military spouses into American royalty. They had tea with Jackie Kennedy, appeared on the cover of Life<...
The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
Anna Malaika Tubbs
Paper Book
New York Times Bestseller "This dynamic blend of biography and manifesto centers on Louise Little, Alberta King, and Berdis Baldwin . . . Tubbs's book stands against the women's erasure, a monument to their historical importance." --The New Yorker...
Love and Ruin
Paula McLain
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The bestselling author of The Paris Wife brings to life the story of Martha Gellhorn--a fiercely independent, ambitious woman ahead of her time, who would become one of the greatest war correspondents of the twentieth century.
The Other Einstein
Marie Benedict
Paper Book
"Superb...the haunting story of Einstein's brilliant first wife who was lost in his shadow."--Sue Monk Kidd, New York Times bestselling author of The Invention of Wings, The Secret Life of Bees, and The Mermaid Chair "The Other Einstein takes you into Mileva's heart, mind, and study as she...
Lady Clementine
Marie Benedict
Paper Book
From Marie Benedict, the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Woman in the Room! An incredible novel that focuses on one of the people with the most influence during World War I and World War II: Clementine Churchill. In 1909, Clementine steps off a train with her new husband,...
Her Hidden Genius
Marie Benedict
Paper Book
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Mystery of Mrs. Christie and The Only Woman in the Room! Rosalind Franklin has always been an outsider--brilliant, but different. Whether working at the laboratory she adored in Paris or toiling at...

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