Kathleen Stone

Kathleen Stone is the author of They Called us Girls:  Stories of Female Ambition from Suffrage to Mad Men.      

Kathleen studied art history at Oberlin College and holds a JD from Boston University School of Law and an MFA from Bennington College. As a lawyer, she was a law clerk to a federal district court judge, a litigation partner in a law firm, senior counsel in a financial institution, and a solo practitioner.

After many years practicing law and writing countless legal briefs, she turned to other sorts of writing. They Called Us Girls is a collective biography of seven women who aspired to professional jobs in the mid-twentieth century. It was an era when women were expected to find fulfillment at home, in the mold of television’s June Cleaver. But these women broke the mold, defying expectations to succeed in jobs reserved almost exclusively for men – 2 doctors, a lawyer, artist, physicist, executive director and intelligence officer.