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432. Susan Polgar :: Becoming A Chess Grandmaster
Susan Polgar became the first woman ever to earn the men's Chess Grandmaster title. Her new memoir, "Rebel Queen: The Cold War, Misogyny, and the Making of a Grandmaster," tells the story of Susan taking on the sexist establishment, standing up to an authoritarian empire and rewriting the rules of what women could achieve against the oppressive backdrop of Cold War Eastern Europe.
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