By: Anthony Miller

An explorer in an age with ever fewer frontiers.

By: Elina Shatkin

The two things she loved most: her husband and an exploding volcano.

By: Elina Shatkin

“A woman whose life’s poetry never sank to prose.”

By: Anthony Miller

A resolute seeker of forbidden knowledge.

By: Elina Shatkin

She married adventure, but made it her own.

By: Elina Shatkin

“I am the sun, the star, the earl, the lion, the light from heaven and the Queen.”

By: Elina Shatkin

The aviatrix who taught Amelia Earhart how to fly.

By: Elina Shatkin

A tattooed, cigar-chomping, cross-dressing, knife-collecting speed demon.

By: Barbara Bogaev

He set a record that will not be broken until man finds water amongst the stars.

By: Catherynne M. Valente

The whore to Annie Oakley’s virgin in American myth.

By: Lucy Sante

The clochard who chronicled freedom from the straight world.

By: Peggy Nelson

His irrepressible optimism and perseverance outlasted his era.

By: Matthew Battles

His silence helps to preserve the moon’s mystique.

By: Peggy Nelson

The heiress-turned-aviatrix who conquered earth, sea, & air.

By: Peggy Nelson

He’s still there because it’s there.