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.The Lifetime Achievement award went to Dr. Jane Goodall. She is famous for her study of chimpanzee social and family interactions and founder of the Jane Goodall Institute.
Women of the Year. [Glamour]

The 2009 IMPAC Longlist has been announced. The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is the largest and most international prize of its kind.
U.S. Twenty-five U.S. libraries nominated 45 novels.
Fourteen were by women:

Where Three Roads Meet. Salley Vickers. Chicago Public Library.

The Opposite House. Helen Oyeyemi. Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County.

The Septembers of Shiraz. Dalia Sofer. New Hampshire State Library.

A Handbook to Luck Cristina García. Denver Public Library.

Ghostwalk. Rebecca Stott.Houston Public Library.

The Shadow Catcher. Marianne Wiggins. Lincoln City Libraries.

Away. Amy Bloom. Milwaukee Public Library.

Harpsong. Rilla Askew. Oklahoma Department of Libraries, Oklahoma City.

Run.Ann Patchett. Multnomah County Library.

The MaytreesAnnie Dillard. Richmond Public Library.

The Gathering. Anne Enright. San Diego Public Library and San Francisco Public Library.

Uprising. Margaret Peterson Haddix and The Grave Diggers Daughter. Joyce Carol Oates. Laramie County Library System.

Macolm Gladwell's new book Outliers, which examines extraordinary achievers, does not include a single woman. Bill Gates, Mozart, Robert Oppenheimer, and the Beatles are among Gladwell's subjects. But what about Virginia Woolf, Susan Sontag, Tina Brown, or Indra Nooyi, the CEO of PepsiCo? --What the Hell, Malcolm Gladwell

This powerful exhibit of the photographs of Ann P. Meredith is the inaugural exhibit in the gallery of the Radcliffe Institute’s newly renovated Byerly Hall. Meredith’s work has long focused on women and women’s issues.
Meredith’s papers and images were acquired by the Radcliffe Institute’s Schlesinger Library in the Spring of 2008 and document her career as artist, writer, filmmaker, community organizer, performance/installation artist, and, most comprehensively, photographer. Once processed, the Ann P. Meredith Papers will provide researchers with visual and textural documentation of a broad spectrum of women’s lives and women’s issues.

Website of Ann P. Meredith.