A new book by Professor Sabrina Fuchs Abrams, Ph.D., graduate faculty in Empire State University's Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS) program, was published by Penn State University Press. The book, New York Women of Wit in the Twentieth Century, focuses on the women who stood on the periphery of predominantly male New York intellectual circles in the twentieth century.

Read more about the book on the publisher's website at www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-09571-4.html. 

You can also read an excerpt of the book on The Gotham Center for New York City History website at www.gothamcenter.org/blog/new-york-women-of-wit-excerpt.