Marjorie Williams, reporter. "The Woman at the Washington Zoo."

Articles on her life and her book from the NYTimes (After a Death by Cancer, a Reporter's Life Force Glows in New Book By TODD S. PURDUM Published: November 8, 2005) and Slate.com (Marjorie Williams: A journalist who made feminism matter.By Meghan O'Rourke Posted Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005)

"Marjorie Williams, a writer for The Washington Post and Vanity Fair and one of the most penetrating and original journalists of her generation..." (NYTimes). Her husband is a senior writer at Slate.

While we're at it, Slate has a nice diary feature on "Book Hunting in Britain". Day 3 includes a visit to Chatsworth House and the present-day Duchess of Devonshire, one of 6 Mitford sisters, and Day 4 is called March of the Penguins and is about the Penguin press and a bookseller from an "undercover literary family"- his parents worked for M16 - in London who started collecting Penguins before they were considered of collectible value (and exhibited, for instance, at the Victoria and Albert.

The writer makes a snide remark at, or merely an observation of, the V&A: "In America, we have self-storage. In Britain, they have the Victoria & Albert Museum..."