Gloria Steinem’s Memoir 'An Unexpected Life' Receives Critical Acclaim

An Unexpected Life by Gloria Steinem review – a fitting tribute to a feminist icon

The activist’s memoir, due to be published this month, now stands as a posthumous testament to her remarkable life Gloria Steinem was due to speak at a women’s lunch in New York at the end of this month and at more events in October, illustrating the central theme of An Unexpected Life, her new memoir, which, when it’s published a few weeks from now, will stand as posthumous testament to the 92-year-old icon: just keep going. So it is, after her death on Wednesday, that the book’s opening pag...

By Emma Brockes