Liza Mundy Explained

Liza Mundy
Birth Date:8 July 1960
Birth Place:Roanoke, Virginia, U.S.
Education:Princeton University (BA)
University of Virginia (MA)
Genre:Non-fiction

Liza Mundy (born 8 July 1960[1]) is an American journalist, non-fiction writer, and fellow at New America Foundation.[2]

She has written a number of books and her writings have also appeared in The Atlantic,[3] Politico, The New York Times, The New Republic, Slate,[4] The Guardian,[5] and The Washington Post.[6]

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,[7] 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,[8] 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."[9] Smithsonian ranked it one of the ten best science books of 2017.[10]

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.[11] She interviewed CIA officers to tell their stories.[12] They were instrumental in building the threat assessment of Al-Qaeda before the September 11 attacks.[13] [14]

Bibliography

Personal life

She married mechanical engineer, science communicator, and television presenter Bill Nye in 2022.[19]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Peake . Amber . 22 June 2022 . Who Is Bill Nye's Wife Liza Mundy? Meet the Science Guy's Other Half . . 24 June 2022.
  2. Web site: Liza Mundy. New America. 1 January 2019.
  3. Web site: Liza Mundy. Mundy. Liza. The Atlantic. en-US. 2017-10-17.
  4. Web site: Liza Mundy. Slate. 2017-10-17.
  5. Web site: Liza Mundy. The Guardian. 2017-10-17.
  6. News: Liza Mundy. 2012-04-13. The Washington Post. 2017-10-17.
  7. News: Gordon . Meryl . 6 November 2017 . The Women Who Helped America Crack Axis Codes . 5 March 2018 . The New York Times.
  8. News: Showalter . Elaine . 6 October 2017 . The brilliance of the women code breakers of World War II . 5 March 2018 . The Washington Post.
  9. News: 12 October 2017 . 'Code Girls' tells the captivating story of America's female World War II codebreakers . 5 March 2018 . The Christian Science Monitor.
  10. News: Gross . Rachel E. . 5 December 2017 . The Ten Best Science Books of 2017 . 5 March 2018 . Smithsonian . en.
  11. News: 2023-10-21 . How the CIA's top-ranking woman beat the agency's men at their own game . 2024-02-04 . Washington Post . en-US . 0190-8286.
  12. Web site: The Secret History of Women in the C.I.A. . 2024-02-04 . airmail.news . en.
  13. Web site: Mundy . Liza . 2023-11-18 . The Women Who Saw 9/11 Coming . 2024-02-04 . The Atlantic . en.
  14. News: Kahn . Mattie . 2023-10-18 . Infiltrating the Ultimate Boys' Club — With Spycraft . 2024-02-04 . The New York Times . en-US . 0362-4331.
  15. News: How the American Women Codebreakers of WWII Helped Win the War. Wei-Haas. Maya. Smithsonian. 2017-10-17. en.
  16. Book: CODE GIRLS by Liza Mundy . Kirkus Reviews. en-us.
  17. News: 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. . 2017-10-17. en.
  18. News: 'The Richer Sex,' by Liza Mundy. Shteir. Rachel. 2012-04-13. The New York Times. 2017-10-17. en-US. 0362-4331.
  19. Web site: Bill Nye is Married! The Science Guy Star Weds Journalist Liza Mundy.

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