Today marks the release of KeriLynn Engel’s book, “Amazing Women In History: Inspiring Stories Of 20 Women The History Books Left Out“. 
The book is informative and entertaining as it portrays the lives of amazing women who are not commonly in the history books. For instance, from the first chapter:
Admiral “Amazing Grace” Hopper, pioneering computer programmer
(Davis, 1984)
United States Navy Admiral Grace Hopper (1906–1992) was one of the first programmers in the history of computers. Her belief that programming languages should be written to look like English and be easily understood were highly influential on the development of one of the first programming languages called COBOL. It’s largely due to Grace Hopper’s influence that programmers today use “if/thens” instead of 1s and 0s.
From a young age, Grace had a curious and analytical mind. When she was seven, she decided she wanted to figure out how clocks worked. To find the answer, she took apart every single alarm clock in the house. When her mother found out, instead of scolding Grace she limited Grace to taking apart only one alarm clock at a time.
Grace’s parents encouraged her curiosity in other ways, too. Her mother, Mary Campbell Van Horne Murray, had been very interested in math as a young woman, but hadn’t been able to study anything beyond geometry because it wasn’t considered proper for a lady at the time. She made sure to encourage Grace in her interests and not to limit her based on her gender. Grace’s father, Walter Fletcher Murray, wanted all of his children to be self-sufficient and made sure his two daughters had the same education and opportunities as his son, which was unusual for the early 20th century. With this encouragement, she went on to study math and physics at Vassar and then Yale, earning her PhD in mathematics in 1931. After graduating, Grace stayed at Vassar to teach mathematics for the next ten years.
Be sure to get yourself a copy and why not pick up a copy for a friend while you’re at it. Buy it at smashwords or Amazon today.
And be sure to visit Kerilynn Engel’s website!
