Brava to Louise Glück, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

Only 16 women, have won the Nobel Prize for Literature, three of them American. Compare that to 101 male winners. When we think of all the talent that has gone unrecognized, it makes us equal parts weepy and angry. But we are determined not to get hung up on the past; rather we want to celebrate the news that American poet Louise Glück is the newest Nobel Laureate.

The author of 12 volumes of poetry, Glück was born in New York City in 1943. She didn't take any conventional route to poetry stardom. She did not graduate from college. Instead she took poetry workshops and practiced her craft while working as a secretary.