Words on Wednesday

Our guest author for the month is Paulina Bren

Paulina Bren is a writer and award-winning historian who teaches at Vassar College on the Pittsburgh Endowment Chair in the Humanities. Her previous book, the best-selling The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free, was a New York Times Editor’s Choice and has been widely translated. Her new book, She-Wolves: The Untold History of Women on Wall Street, also widely translated, was named among The Washington Post’s, Town & Country’s and Lit Hub’s

Most Anticipated Books for Fall 2024. It was chosen as a Next Big Idea Club Must-Read, and the Kirkus Review named She-Wolves one of the top ten books of 2024, while Untapped New York listed it among the 100 Best Books about New York of all time.

Born in the former Czechoslovakia, Paulina grew up in the U.K. and the U.S., receiving her B.A. from Wesleyan University, her M.A. from the University of Washington,…