Liza Mundy Biography – Liza Mundy Wiki
Liza Mundy is an American journalist, non-fiction writer, and fellow at New America Foundation. She has written a number of books and her writings have also appeared in Atlantic, Politico, the New York Times, the New Republic, Slate, the Guardian, and The Washington Post. She is a senior fellow with New America’s Better Life Lab and the former director of the organization’s Breadwinning and Caregiving program. She was also a 2013 Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow with the New America Fellows Program.
Her book Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II documents the work of thousands of female American codebreakers during World War II, including top analysts such as Elizebeth Friedman and Agnes Driscoll, lesser-known but outstanding contributors like Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein and Ann Zeilinger Caracristi, and many others. It received positive reviews in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Christian Science Monitor, though the Monitor also stated that “Mundy doesn’t entirely succeed in deciphering the extraordinary complexity of codes and cryptography for layperson readers. It can be hard to understand exactly how codes were created and cracked.” Smithsonian ranked it one of the ten best science books of 2017.
She has an AB from Princeton University and a Master of Arts in English literature from the University of Virginia according to New America.
Liza Mundy Age
She was born on July 8, 1960, in the United States.
Liza Mundy Husband
She has been married twice. She is married to mechanical engineer, science communicator, and television presenter Bill Nye. The pair tied the knot in May 2022 in the Castle Building’s Haupt Garden at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. Naturally, the newlyweds first met because of their mutual love of learning and history. Speaking of how the couple met, Mundy mentioned Nye’s mother, Jacqueline Jenkins-Nye, in her 2017 book Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II. Nye then reportedly sent her an email and a bond was formed.
Liza Mundy Children
She has two children with her former husband. One of her children is named Anna and two children, Anna who toasted at the reception of her mother’s wedding to Bill Nye.
