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Emily Holleman

Emily Holleman
Emily Holleman, a graduate of Yale University, spent several years as an editor for Salon. Currently based in Brooklyn, she has devoted the past three years to reading and writing about the Ptolemies and is, like Arsinoe, a younger sister. She is the author of Cleopatra's Shadows: A Fall of Egypt Novel and The Drowning King.


Is Hillary Clinton a Modern-Day Cleopatra?

Or, How We Systematically Tear Down Our Female Leaders
April 6, 2017  By Emily Holleman
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