A Woman for President: The Story of Victoria Woodhull - Hardcover

Reseña del editor

Born into poverty, Victoria Woodhull became a millionaire by offering Cornelius Vanderbilt financial advice from the spirit world, became the first female candidate for the U.S. presidency, and became the first woman to have a seat on the stock exchange.

Biografía del autor

When Kathleen Krull was fifteen, she was fired from her part-time job at the public library for reading too much. She took that passion to her career in children's books and has become a noted biographer for children. Her Wilma Unlimited was named an ALA Notable; her Lives of the Presidents was a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year and a Boston Globe/Horn Book honor book; and her nonfiction has won innumerable other awards.

A Woman for President is Kathleen's first book with Walker & Company.
She lives with her husband, illustrator Paul Brewer, in San Diego, California.

Jane Dyer is the beloved illustrator of many bestselling picture-books, including Time for Bed by Mem Fox, Babies on the Go by Linda Ashman, and I Love You Like Crazy Cakes by Rose Lewis, which received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews and was a New York Times bestseller. She brings her talented hand to picture-book biography for the first time in A Woman for President. Jane lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.