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Anne Perkins '71 Releases First Book Next Month
Anne Perkins '71 will release her first book Yale Needs Women: How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant on September 10. This release, by Sourcebooks, is fifty years after Yale went coed in 1969. Yale Needs Women follows the story of five of Yale’s first women undergraduates—three white and two black—through the tumultuous early years of coeducation. You can read early reviews and more about the book at www.yaleneedswomen.com.
Anne will begin her book tour on September 5 and will be speaking in Baltimore on October 30. Anne's discussion in Baltimore about Yale Needs Women is a joint talk sponsored by the Enoch Pratt Library’s Writers Live! program and the Church of Redeemer Voices series. The talk will begin at 7:00 p.m. at Church of the Redeemer.
Not in Baltimore? Here is a full listing of dates for Anne's Book Tour. She may be coming to a town or city near you!
Anne has spent her life working in education, from an urban high school teacher to Associate Commissioner for Academic Affairs at Massachusetts’ Department of Higher Education. After graduating from Calvert, she attended Bryn Mawr and went from there to Yale, where she was the first woman editor of the Yale Daily News. Anne is also a Rhodes Scholar and holds a PhD in Higher Education. “Yale Needs Women is my first book,” she shares, “one I was moved to write after learning the incredible story of Yale’s first women undergraduates."
Calvert School is a coed independent lower and middle school.
