Jordan Goodman is a former Money magazine journalist and the author of several bestselling books, including Fast Profits in Hard Times, Everyone's Money Book, The Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms, and Master Your Money Type.
Kaui Hart Hemmings took up writing in the hopes of avoiding a "normal" job. The strategy worked. Her first book, a short-story collection titled House of Thieves, came out when she was 29, and was quickly followed by a well-reviewed novel, The Descendants .
Katya Grineva made up her mind when she first set foot in New York City as a Russian teenager that she would play Carnegie Hall. The concert pianist has done it in spades: 2007 marks her ninth consecutive year gracing the time-honored stage, the first female solo pianist to hold that record.
