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Finally--in Julie Scelfo's brilliant collection of portraits and vignettes, the Town Mothers of NYC loom as large as the Town Fathers, often towering over them. Edith Wharton, Margaret Sanger, Billie Holiday, Diana Vreeland, Zora Neale Hurston, and so many more. This is a book that you'll want to keep on your shelf and pass along to the next generation. --Teresa Carpenter, Pulitzer Prize-winner and bestselling author of New York Diaries 1609-2009

Finally--in Julie Scelfo's brilliant collection of portraits and vignettes, the Town Mothers of NYC loom as large as the Town Fathers, often towering over them. Edith Wharton, Margaret Sanger, Billie Holiday, Diana Vreeland, Zora Neale Hurston, and so many more. This is a book that you'll want to keep on your shelf and pass along to the next generation. --Teresa Carpenter, Pulitzer Prize-winner and bestselling author of New York Diaries 1609-2009 Julie Scelfo has produced a must-read for anyone who loves New York, filling every page with fresh stories and great details about the fascinating and important women we all should know, but don't. Now I'm no longer embarrassed by my ignorance of the REAL history of the city. This book filled that huge gap. --Jonathan Alter, New York Times bestselling author of The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies

Finally--in Julie Scelfo's brilliant collection of portraits and vignettes, the Town Mothers of NYC loom as large as the Town Fathers, often towering over them. Edith Wharton, Margaret Sanger, Billie Holiday, Diana Vreeland, Zora Neale Hurston, and so many more. This is a book that you'll want to keep on your shelf and pass along to the next generation. --Teresa Carpenter, Pulitzer Prize-winner and bestselling author of New York Diaries 1609-2009 Julie Scelfo has produced a must-read for anyone who loves New York, filling every page with fresh stories and great details about the fascinating and important women we all should know, but don't. Now I'm no longer embarrassed by my ignorance of the REAL history of the city. This book filled that huge gap. --Jonathan Alter, New York Times bestselling author of The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies What would NYC be without women? In this glittering volume, Julie Scelfo provides the indisputable answer: not much. These women are my muses. --Zac Posen What an inventive and important book! And long overdue. Ms. Scelfo has produced a history of New York City which we've never read, filled with insightful portraits of the women who influenced all facets of our city. Page after page is filled with a thrilling sense of discovery, as you realize the extent of contributors who have remained unheralded. This book is the definition of a must-read! --Nancy Bass Wyden, co-owner of the Strand Bookstore, New York City A welcome antidote to male-centered history, The Women Who Made New York should be taught in every New York high school. I long for the day when books like this become unnecessary. --David Byrne, award-winning composer, songwriter, singer, and author, best known for being the frontman of the seminal NYC New Wave/punk band Talking Heads

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"Julie Scelfo is a Fall 2018 TED Resident in New York City, and a former staff writer/current contributor to The New York Times, where she wrote stories about society and human behavior. She has written about transgender pronouns; the intersection of campus suicides with social media and perfectionism; the human health risks from synthetic chemicals in consumer products; homelessness; and how the collapse of Lehman Brothers led to ""trickle-down home economics""-thousands of domestics and other low-wage laborers losing their jobs."

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