Download or read book The Women Who Made New York written by Julie Scelfo and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Women Who Made New York reveals the untold stories of the phenomenal women who made New York City the cultural epicenter of the world. Many were revolutionaries and activists, like Zora Neale Hurston and Audre Lorde. Others were icons and iconoclasts, like Fran Lebowitz and Grace Jones. There were also women who led quieter private lives but were just as influential, such as Emily Warren Roebling, who completed the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge when her engineer husband became too ill to work.--Amazon.com