A Midwife's Tale

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (born 1938) is an American historian specializing in early American and women's history, best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning book A Midwife's Tale (1990), which also earned the Bancroft Prize and inspired a PBS documentary, as well as Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History (2007), a phrase from her scholarship that became a cultural phenomenon. A Harvard professor emerita, she received a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship in 1992 and served as president of the American Historical Association (2009-2010). Harvard History, AHA