The Mary Sue: At a ceremony on Wednesday, President Obama awarded the National Medal of Arts and Humanities not only to Star Wars creator George Lucas, but also to a slew of incredible women such as Joan Didion, Anna Deavere Smith, and Elaine May.
The other women who got the award were Lin Arison (founder of the National Young Arts Association), author Jill Kerr Conway, novelist and essayist Marilynne Robinson, Natalie Zemon Davis (pioneer in women’s studies, author, historian), and Joan Meyers Brown (founder, choreographer, dancer, and artistic director for the Philadelphia Dance Company). Twenty-four people won the award in total.
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