Gloria Steinem Built a Fortune Worth Up to $20 Million. Her Final Book Is Still Ahead
The writer and journalist founded a magazine, published 11 major books, and launched multiple foundations. Her final piece of written work has yet to be published.
Gloria Steinem, the writer and journalist best known for her feminist activism, died on Wednesday at age 92.
Her passing was announced publicly in a statement posted to her Instagram on Thursday. “Gloria’s near-century on earth were years well-lived life, and she continued working for equality until the very end,” the post reads. “Gloria’s greatest gift was her ability to listen to others, to make others feel seen and heard. Her words, actions, and example gave people permission to be their truest selves.”
A cause of death was not identified.
Yet, her legacy will outlast her. Her next book, An Unexpected Life, is currently set to be released on September 22. “I have now lived for more than fifty years in this brownstone, in rooms that have witnessed lives before mine, and will know others after I am gone,” she writes in the upcoming memoir.
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What was Gloria Steinem’s net worth?
Prior to her passing, Steinem was reportedly worth between $15 million and $20 million, a fortune she primarily built through book royalties and paid speaking engagements.
Which publications did Gloria Steinem start?
Born in 1934 in Toledo, Ohio, Steinem built her reputation as a journalist for multiple publications, famously Esquire andNew York. In 1963, she came to prominence after publishing an article about the exploitative working conditions as a Playboy Bunny at the New York Playboy Club.
In 1972, Steinem co-founded the feminist magazine Ms., which sought to tackle underreported topics like domestic violence, reproductive rights, and sexual harassment.
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