Linda Hirshman

Linda Hirshman is the author of the New York Times and Washington Post best-selling book Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World. She is also the lawyer and political pundit who wrote the first history of the gay revolution since everything changed: Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution. She has written about social movements for a variety of publications, including The New York Times, Washington Post, New Republic, Slate.com, and The Daily Beast. She has appeared on NPR (all day August 31, 2015, at launch of Sisters in Law), Freakonomics Radio, 60 Minutes, Good Morning America, CBS News, CNN, MSNBC, and above all, on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report. She lives in Arizona and New York.