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Middle sibling of three children, with a father in the export-import business and a mother in advertising.
Author of THE PERFECT MOTHER and GOODNIGHT BEAUTIFUL
Philanthropist and former multimedia product developer and manager at Microsoft.
Professor, Ph.D., New York University, Sociology, 2006, B.A., Mount Holyoke College, Psychology, 2000.
Journalist, author, and visiting fellow at Williams College. Best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History and as an environmental observer and commentator for The New Yorker magazine.
Novelist from Northern Ireland. Winner of the Betty Trask Award for her debut novel, After You'd Gone. Winner of the 2010 Costa Novel Award for The Hand That First Held Mine. Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2020 for Hamnet.
Attended the College of William and Mary and graduated summa cum laude from Barnard College of Columbia University. Married to Sunil Khilnani, a professor of politics and history at Ashoka University.
Business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. Co-founder of Microsoft and key figure in the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s.
Business magnate and investor. Founder, chairman, CEO, and chief technology officer of SpaceX. Angel investor, CEO, product architect, and former chairman of Tesla, Inc. Owner, chairman, and CTO of X Corp. Founder of the Boring Company. Co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI. President of the Musk Foundation.