Liza Mundy is an award-winning journalist and the New York Times -bestselling author of five books including her latest work, The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA (2023).

Liza Mundy is an award-winning journalist and the New York Times-bestselling author of five books including her latest work, The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA (2023).

Mundy hones in on the lives and labors of several exemplary code-breakers, including Ann Caracristi and Agnes Driscoll, while providing a broader portrait that celebrates the entire cohort of talented women, whose top secret has went without public recognition for nearly seventy years.

Created in the aftermath of World War Two, the Central Intelligence Agency relied on women even as it attempted to channel their talents and keep them down. Women sent cables, made dead drops, and maintained the agency’s secrets. Despite discrimination—even because of it—women who started as clerks, secretaries, or unpaid spouses rose to become some of the …

“The Sisterhood is a rip-roaring read about spycraft and the CIA’s inner workings that rewrites and enlarges the history of America’s iconic intelligence service. Mundy’s indefatigable reporting has unearthed an inspiring group portrait of extraordinary CIA women whose careers are multi-sided profiles in courage.

LIZA MUNDY igence Agency. Countless books exist about America’s flagship spy agency—its legacy, actions, errors, achievements—and it’s striking how many include the words “man” or “men” in the title: Honorable Men, The Man Who Kept the Secrets, A Man Called Intrepid, Company Man, The

Genevieve Grotjan aspired to be a math professor but couldn’t find a university willing to hire a woman. In September 1940, after less than a year as a civilian Army code breaker, she made a key break that enabled the Allies to eavesdrop on Japanese diplomatic communications for the entirety of World War II. Courtesy of National Security Agency Agnes Meyer Driscoll (upper …

Mundy expertly tracks the fascinating scientific developments. But the real marvel of her book is her empathetic scrutiny of the human dramas and dilemmas those advances have brought with them.

Fascinating, commanding, keenly observed and reported, rich in personal drama as well as in the science of evolution and reproduction, Liza Mundy’s Everything Conceivable is a groundbreaking consideration of the changes sweeping through our culture and the world.

For generations of adoptions, the birth mother was an anonymous woman who relinquished her infant and then receded into the shadows. That is so not Hava Leichtman. By Liza Mundy