Presents brief, illustrated biographies of twenty-six women, one for each letter of the alphabet, who have made history in their various fields, including naturalist Jane Goodall, missionary Mother Teresa, and democratic leader, political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi, Amelia Earhart, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Dolores Huerta, Eleanor Roosevelt, Frida Kahlo, Grace Hopper, Helen Keller, Imogen Cunningham, Kristi Yamaguchi, Lena Horne, Maya Lin, Nawal El Sadaawi, Oprah Winfrey, Patricia Schroder, Quah Ah, Rachel Carson, Ursula Le Guin, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Wilma Mankiller, Chen Xiefen, Yoshiko Uchida, Zora Neale Hurston.