Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is the author of WELL-BEHAVED WOMEN SELDOM MAKE HISTORY (Vintage Books, September 2008). She is currently Phillips Professor of Early American History and 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard University. Her book A Midwif''s Tale won the Pulitzer Prize in History, the Bancroft Prize, and the American Historical Society's John H. Dunning and Joan Kelly Memorial Prizes. Ulrich's discovery of Martha Ballard and work on Ballard's diary have been chronicled in a do <> cumentary film written and produced by Laurie Kahn-Leavitt with major funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the "American Experience" television series. Ulrich received her B.A. from the University of Utah, her M.A. from Simmons College, and her Ph.D. from the University of New Hampshire. She was previously Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire. Ulrich is also the author of numerous articles and reviews and the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and many other honors and awards.

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