Fred Strebeigh (www.Strebeigh.com) teaches nonfiction writing at Yale University. His writing has appeared in publications including Atlantic Monthly, Audubon, E: The Environmental Magazine, Legal Affairs, New Republic, Reader's Digest, Russian Life, Sierra, Smithsonian, and the New York Times Magazine. An article for the Times Magazine became the starting point for his book Equal: Women Reshape American Law (Norton, 2009) www.EqualWomen.com .