Martha Ackmann

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Her op-eds and columns have appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Timesand many others. She is a frequent commentator for New England Public Radio. Ackmann’s books include The Mercury 13: The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight, Curveball: The Remarkable Story of Toni Stone, and the forthcomingVesuvius at Home: Ten Days in the Life, Loves, and Mystery of Emily Dickinson. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Ackmann was the Augustus Anson Whitney Scholar in Non-Fiction at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. She holds a BA from Lindenwood College, an MA from Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English and a Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts. A long-time member of the faculty at Mount Holyoke College, Martha Ackmann lives in western Massachusetts.