Rachel Shteir
Nonfiction
Chicago, IL
Nonfiction
Rachel Shteir is the award-winning writer of four books: Striptease: The Untold History of The Girlie Show, Gypsy: The Art of the Tease, The Steal: A Cultural History of Shoplifting, and Betty Friedan: Magnificent Disrupter. Striptease won The George Freedley Memorial Award; Gypsy was a San Francisco Chronicle Best Pick and Betty Friedan was a New Yorker best book of 2023 and a finalist in the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Biography. She has written for many magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal and she teaches at The Theatre School at DePaul University.