Stories I’ve enjoyed with a focus on productive characters engaged in business, engineering, or science achievements.
(Excludes pure action characters (military, cops, etc.) and pure service characters (lawyers, doctors, etc.) unless focused on innovation, as per Kurt Keefner’s idea).
NOVELS
FemaleAtlas Shrugged (Dagny Taggart, Hank Rearden), by Ayn Rand
So Big (Selina De Jong), by Edna Ferber
O Pioneers! (Alexandra Bergson), by Willa Cather
Trading In Danger (Kylara Vatta), by Elizabeth Moon
Tale of the Wind (3 generations of women), by Kay Nolte Smith
Male
The Fountainhead (Howard Roark), by Ayn Rand Calumet “K” (Charlie Bannon), by Merwin Webster
Tai Pan (Dirk Struan), by James Clavell
Noble House (Ian Dunross), by James Clavell
FILMS
FemaleAtlas Shrugged, Part I (Dagny Taggart, Hank Rearden)
Hobson’s Choice (Maggie)
Contact (Eleanor "Ellie" Arroway)
Baby Boom (J.C. Wiatt)
Working Girl (Tess McGill)
Lucy Gallant
A League of Their Own
Based on fact:
Miracle Worker (Anne Sullivan)Madam Curie
Sister Kenny
Male
Other People’s Money (Lawrence Garfield)Executive Suite (Don Walling)
Cash McCall (Cash McCall)
Thunder Bay (Steve Martin)
Boom Town (John McMasters, John Sand)
Sabrina (Linus Larrabee)
No Highway In The Sky (Theodore Honey)
Based on fact:
Dispatch From Reuters (Paul Reuter)First of the Few/Spitfire (R.J. Mitchell)
Edison, The Man (Thomas Edison)
NON-FICTION -- people doing it their way.
Women In The Wild Blue, by David A. Stallman
Mean and Lowly Things, by Kate Jackson
Women of Discovery, by Milbry Polk, Mary Tiegreen
Chess Bitch, by Jennifer Shahade
Breaking Through, by Susan Polgar
Attacking Chess, by Josh Waitzkin
Additions and criticism welcome.
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