Cathryn J. Prince a journalist and author of several nonfiction history books.
Her next book "For the Love of Labor" is due out in March 2026.
From her start as one of the youngest activists in US history, Pauline Newman helped shape the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) into a dominant force in industrial America.
Additionally Prince wrote: "Queen of the Mountaineers: The Trailblazing Life of Fanny Bullock Workman" and "American Daredevel: The Extraordinary Life of Richard Halliburton, the World's First Celebrity Travel Writer." "Death in the Baltic: The WWII Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff" received the 2013 Military Writers Society of America Founders Award. "A Professor, a President, and a Meteor: The Birth of American Science" (Prometheus, 2010) won the Connecticut Press Club's 2011 Book Award in Non-Fiction and received an Honorable Mention in General/Non-Fiction at the 2011 New England Book Festival Book Awards.
For years Prince was a contributing correspondent to The Christian Science Monitor. While in Switzerland she covered the Nazi Gold Crisis, the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, the Swiss Parliament, and a wire tapping scandal. She also got to write about cow fights and chocolate.
An adjunct lecturer of journalism at Fordham University, Prince writes for several outlets including The Christian Science Monitor, The Times of Israel, and The Forward.
Prince holds a B.A. from The Elliot School of International Affairs, The George Washington University; an M.S. from The Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University; and an M.A. in American Studies from Fairfield University.