A Woman's Education

The beloved bestselling author of The Road from Coorain and True North continues her remarkable autobiography with an account of her decade as the first woman president of Smith College. Conway took the helm at Smith at a time of the encroachment of coeducation and of exploding culture wars. With Smith's future at stake, she battled stuffy faculty, ossified traditions, and skeptical donors to turn it into a place committed to preparing young women for the new realities of the future. Through it all, Conway served as an inspiration to thousands of students while balancing the demands of her public role against the private pressures of coping with her husband's bipolar disorder. A moving tribute to the value of singlesex education and to one woman's triumphs, A Woman's Education is sure to become a classic alongside Katharine Graham's Personal History.