One unexpected fringe benefit of a surveillance state is that it can make for a surprisingly comprehensive biographer. To commemorate International Women’s Day at MuckRock, we put together a collection of all of our articles on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s forays into the lives of prominent women over the decades.
Bella Abzug
Hannah Arendt
Josephine Baker
Helen Gurley Brown
Julia Child
Lady Diana
Hedy Epstein
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Betty Friedan
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Thelma Glass
Lady Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton
Whitney Houston
Ethel Merman
Marilyn Monroe
Dorothy Parker
Ayn Rand
Margaret Sanger
Toshi Seeger
Susan Sontag
Margaret Thatcher
Browse a collection of our completed FBI requests on the project page, and if you feel like we’re missing somebody, let us know and we’ll file for it on your behalf.
Image by Warren Leffler via Wikimedia Commons
