Liza Mundy
{{Short description|American author (born 1960)}}
{{Infobox writer
|name = Liza Mundy
|image = Liza Mundy 172883.jpg
|caption = Mundy in 2017
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1960|7|8}}
|birth_place = Roanoke, Virginia, U.S.
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|education = Princeton University (BA)
University of Virginia (MA)
|genre = Non-fiction
|spouse = {{marriage|Bill Nye|2022}}
}}
Liza Mundy (born July 8, 1960){{Cite web |last=Peake |first=Amber |date=22 June 2022 |title=Who Is Bill Nye's Wife Liza Mundy? Meet the Science Guy's Other Half |url=https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2022/06/22/who-is-bill-nye-wife-liza-mundy/ |publisher=HITC |access-date=24 June 2022}} is an American journalist, non-fiction writer, and fellow at New America Foundation.{{cite web|url=https://www.newamerica.org/our-people/liza-mundy/|title=Liza Mundy|website=New America|accessdate=1 January 2019}}
She has written a number of books and her writings have also appeared in The Atlantic,{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/author/liza-mundy/|title=Liza Mundy|last=Mundy|first=Liza|website=The Atlantic|language=en-US|access-date=2017-10-17}} Politico, The New York Times, The New Republic, Slate,{{Cite web|url=http://www.slate.com/authors.liza_mundy.html|title=Liza Mundy|website=Slate|access-date=2017-10-17}} The Guardian,{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/liza-mundy|title=Liza Mundy|website=The Guardian|access-date=2017-10-17}} and The Washington Post.{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/liza-mundy/2011/03/04/AB43otN_page.html|title=Liza Mundy|date=2012-04-13|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=2017-10-17}}
Books
=''Code Girls''=
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II documents the work of thousands of female American codebreakers during World War II,{{cite news |last1=Gordon |first1=Meryl |date=6 November 2017 |title=The Women Who Helped America Crack Axis Codes |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/06/books/review/liza-mundy-code-girls-world-war-ii.html |accessdate=5 March 2018 |work=The New York Times}} including top analysts such as Elizebeth Friedman and Agnes Driscoll, lesser known but outstanding contributors like Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein and Ann Zeilinger Caracristi, and many others. It received positive reviews in The New York Times, The Washington Post,{{cite news |last1=Showalter |first1=Elaine |date=6 October 2017 |title=The brilliance of the women code breakers of World War II |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/the-brilliance-of-the-women-code-breakers-of-world-war-ii/2017/10/06/ec64ca8a-9e2c-11e7-9c8d-cf053ff30921_story.html |accessdate=5 March 2018 |newspaper=The Washington Post}} and The Christian Science Monitor, though the Monitor also states that "Mundy doesn't entirely succeed in deciphering the extraordinary complexity of codes and cryptography for layperson readers. It can be hard to understand exactly how codes were created and cracked."{{cite news |date=12 October 2017 |title='Code Girls' tells the captivating story of America's female World War II codebreakers |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2017/1012/Code-Girls-tells-the-captivating-story-of-America-s-female-World-War-II-codebreakers |accessdate=5 March 2018 |work=The Christian Science Monitor}} Smithsonian ranked it one of the ten best science books of 2017.{{cite news |last1=Gross |first1=Rachel E. |date=5 December 2017 |title=The Ten Best Science Books of 2017 |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ten-best-science-books-2017-180967420/ |accessdate=5 March 2018 |work=Smithsonian |language=en}}
= ''The Sisterhood'' =
In The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA, she documents the women of the Central Intelligence Agency, and their careers, including Eloise Randolph Page.{{Cite news |date=2023-10-21 |title=How the CIA's top-ranking woman beat the agency's men at their own game |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/10/21/eloise-page-cia-women/ |access-date=2024-02-04 |newspaper=Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}} She interviewed CIA officers to tell their stories.{{Cite web |title=The Secret History of Women in the C.I.A. |url=https://airmail.news/books/2023/10/after-school-activity |access-date=2024-02-04 |website=airmail.news |language=en}} They were instrumental in building the threat assessment of Al-Qaeda before the September 11 attacks.{{Cite web |last=Mundy |first=Liza |date=2023-11-18 |title=The Women Who Saw 9/11 Coming |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/cia-women-counterterrorism-9-11-al-qaeda-warnings/676041/ |access-date=2024-02-04 |website=The Atlantic |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Kahn |first=Mattie |date=2023-10-18 |title=Infiltrating the Ultimate Boys' Club — With Spycraft |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/18/books/review/the-sisterhood-liza-mundy.html |access-date=2024-02-04 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}
Bibliography
- {{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rw2oEAAAQBAJ&q=The+Sisterhood:+The+Secret+History+of+Women+at+the+CIA |title=The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA|date=2023|publisher=Crown|isbn=9780593238172|language=en}}
- {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vFYRDgAAQBAJ&q=Liza+Mundy+code+girls|title = Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II|publisher=Hachette Books|date = 2017|isbn = 9780316352550}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-women-codebreakers-wwii-helped-win-war-180965058/|title=How the American Women Codebreakers of WWII Helped Win the War|last=Wei-Haas|first=Maya|work=Smithsonian|access-date=2017-10-17|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/liza-mundy/code-girls/|title=CODE GIRLS by Liza Mundy |work= Kirkus Reviews|language=en-us}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-316-35253-6|title=Nonfiction Book Review: Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy. Hachette, $28 (400p) ISBN 978-0-316-35253-6|work=Publishers Weekly |access-date=2017-10-17|language=en}}
- {{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/michellebiograph00mund|url-access=registration|title=Michelle: A Biography|date=2009-04-28|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=9781439159323|language=en}}
- {{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4y2iUqdhfOUC&q=Liza+Mundy+code+girls|title=The Richer Sex: How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners Is Transforming Our Culture|date=2013-03-19|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=9781439197721|language=en}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/books/review/the-richer-sex-by-liza-mundy.html|title='The Richer Sex,' by Liza Mundy|last=Shteir|first=Rachel|date=2012-04-13|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-10-17|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}
- {{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_x_sV5L0jH4C&q=Liza+Mundy+code+girls |title=Everything Conceivable: How Assisted Reproduction Is Changing Our World|date=2008|publisher=Anchor Books|isbn=9781400095377|language=en}}
Personal life
She married mechanical engineer, science communicator, and television presenter Bill Nye in 2022.{{cite web |url=https://people.com/tv/bill-nye-liza-mundy-wedding-exclusive |title=Bill Nye is Married! The Science Guy Star Weds Journalist Liza Mundy}}
References
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External links
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Category:21st-century American non-fiction writers
Category:American women non-fiction writers
Category:21st-century American women writers
Category:21st-century American women journalists
Category:21st-century American journalists