They Call Me Harriet

Harriet Latham Robinson juggled marriage and divorce, motherhood and career, long before "having it all" was a part of most women's identities. A Boston-area native, Robinson's high-spirited autobiography recounts a whirlwind life full of travel (including to Russia at the height of the Cold War), receiving a Ph.D. from MIT, raising three boys largely on her own-and ultimately, pursuing a burgeoning career as one of very few women at the forefront of the then-new field of molecular biology.

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