Martha Stewart | Academy of Achievement

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Gallery">Gallery</a> </li> </ul> </nav> <article class="post-13207 achiever type-achiever status-publish has-post-thumbnail hentry careers-entrepreneur"> <div class="entry-content container clearfix">  <div class="tab-content"> <div class="tab-pane active" id="biography" role="tabpanel"> <section class="achiever--biography"> <div class="row"> <header class="editorial-article__header col-md-8 col-md-offset-2 text-xs-center"> <i class="icon-icon_bio text-brand-primary"></i> <h3 class="serif-3 quote-marks">The big, big turning point was when I wrote my first book. Americans look at you very differently, respect you greatly more when you write a book. The printed word…I mean it doesn’t even matter if it’s good, you have become an expert in everyone’s viewpoint.</h3> </header> </div> <div class="row"> <aside class="col-md-4 sidebar clearfix"> <h2 class="serif-3 p-b-1">Discovering Everyday Good Things</h2> <div class="col-xs-12 sidebar--chunk p-b-2"> <dt class="serif-7">Date of Birth</dt> <dd class="sans-2"> August 3, 1941 </dd> </div> </aside> <article class="editorial-article col-md-8"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body data-rsssl="1"> <figure id="attachment_27956" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-27956" style="width: 400px" class="wp-caption alignright"><noscript><img class="wp-image-27956 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206im_/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/stewart10.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-27956 size-full lazyload" alt="Martha Kostyra, of Nutley, New Jersey, age 10." width="400" height="404" data-sizes="(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/stewart10.jpg 400w, /web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/stewart10-376x380.jpg 376w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/stewart10.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-27956" class="wp-caption-text">Martha Kostyra, of Nutley, New Jersey, at the age 10.</figcaption></figure> <p>Martha Stewart’s image as the personification of gracious living may lead some to imagine that she grew up in the sort of rural luxury pictured in her books and magazines. In fact, she was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, a location known more for heavy industry than for rustic charm. Her parents, Martha and Edward Kostyra, were a schoolteacher and a pharmaceuticals salesman, respectively. When Martha was three, the family moved to Nutley, New Jersey, where she grew up with four brothers and sisters in a close-knit Polish-American family defined by her father’s intense ambition for his children. Edward Kostyra taught his daughter gardening when she was only three; her mother taught her cooking and sewing; her grandparents taught her to put up preserves, and she learned to make pies and cakes from a pair of retired bakers who lived next door.</p> <p>By all accounts, Martha Kostyra was a hard-working, serious child. A straight-A student, she won a partial scholarship to Barnard College in New York City and worked as a model to help pay expenses. She began her college career intending to study chemistry, but later switched to art, European history and architectural history. Just after her sophomore year, she married Andrew Stewart, a law student. She took a year off from Barnard after their 1961 wedding but returned to graduate with a double major in history and architectural history. After graduation, she continued a successful modeling career, appearing in print and television advertisements for Breck, Clairol, Lifebuoy soap and Tareyton cigarettes until her daughter, Alexis, was born in 1965.</p> <figure id="attachment_26839" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-26839" style="width: 1200px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="wp-image-26839 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206im_/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/here-she-poses-in-a-bathing-suit-and-shows-off-her-fantastic-figure.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-26839 size-full lazyload" alt="At 15, Stewart was featured in a television commercial for Unilever. She went on to appear in television commercials and in magazines. During her college years, she supplemented her scholarship money through "modeling jobs at $50/hour — which was a lot of money at that time."" width="1200" height="947" data-sizes="(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/here-she-poses-in-a-bathing-suit-and-shows-off-her-fantastic-figure.jpg 1200w, /web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/here-she-poses-in-a-bathing-suit-and-shows-off-her-fantastic-figure-380x300.jpg 380w, /web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/here-she-poses-in-a-bathing-suit-and-shows-off-her-fantastic-figure-760x600.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/here-she-poses-in-a-bathing-suit-and-shows-off-her-fantastic-figure.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-26839" class="wp-caption-text">At the age of 15, Martha Kostyra (Martha Stewart) was featured in a television commercial for Unilever. She went on to appear in television commercials and various magazines. During her college years, Martha supplemented her Barnard scholarship money through “modeling jobs at $50 an hour — which was a lot of money at that time.”</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1967, Martha Stewart began a second career as a stockbroker, her father-in-law’s profession. Meanwhile, Andrew Stewart founded a publishing house and served as chief executive of several others. When a recession hit Wall Street in 1973, Stewart left the brokerage. She and her husband moved to Westport, Connecticut, where they undertook the complete renovation of an 1805 farmhouse on Turkey Hill Road, a location familiar to viewers of her later television programs. In 1976, she started a catering business, which she ran from the basement of her house. She gained additional business experience managing a gourmet food store in Westport, the Market Basket, which she guided to success. Her catering business also prospered. In only ten years her basement business had become a $1-million enterprise.</p> <figure id="attachment_26838" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-26838" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><noscript><img class="wp-image-26838 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206im_/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/GettyImages-584842440.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-26838 size-full lazyload" alt="1961: Martha Kostyra (aka Martha Stewart) of Barnard College in New York City, one of Glamour's ten best-dressed college girls, wearing a wool coat with braid matching buttons by Finger, Rabiner & Jontow, scarf by Liberty, alligator bag by Lucille, gloves by Wear Right, and pumps by Deb. (Photo by Frank Horvat/Condé Nast via Getty Images)" width="2280" height="3849" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/GettyImages-584842440.jpg 2280w, /web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/GettyImages-584842440-225x380.jpg 225w, /web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/GettyImages-584842440-450x760.jpg 450w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/GettyImages-584842440.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-26838" class="wp-caption-text">1961: Martha Kostyra (Martha Stewart) of Barnard College in New York City, one of <em>Glamour</em>‘s ten best-dressed college girls, wearing a wool coat with braid matching buttons by Finger, Rabiner & Jontow, scarf by Liberty, alligator bag by Lucille, gloves by Wear Right, and pumps by Deb. (Frank Horvat/Condé Nast via Getty Images)</figcaption></figure> <p>Catering publishers’ parties in New York City brought her valuable contacts and led to a book deal. In 1982 her first book, <em>Martha Stewart’s Entertaining</em>, appeared. Co-written with Elizabeth Hawes, the lavishly illustrated volume became the bestselling cookbook since Julia Child’s <em>Mastering the Art of French Cooking</em>, 20 years before. More books followed, on hors d’oeuvres, pies, weddings, Christmas, gardening and restoring old houses. In addition to her books, Stewart served as an editor and columnist for the magazine <em>House Beautiful</em> and later as a contributing editor to <em>Family Circle</em>. While her career prospered, her family life changed, and in 1989, Martha and Andrew Stewart divorced.</p> <figure id="attachment_26848" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-26848" style="width: 1600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-26848 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206im_/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-Stewart-Entertaining1.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-26848 lazyload" alt="On December 13, 1982, Martha's first book, "Entertaining," was released. Martha was running a thriving catering company in Connecticut, and decided that she wanted to preserve all the memories and recipes she created for the events she catered, so she wrote a book to share them with people who wanted ideas for their own parties." width="1600" height="1312" data-sizes="(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-Stewart-Entertaining1.jpg 1600w, /web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-Stewart-Entertaining1-380x312.jpg 380w, /web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-Stewart-Entertaining1-760x623.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-Stewart-Entertaining1.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-26848" class="wp-caption-text">On December 13, 1982, Martha’s first book, <em>Entertaining</em>, was released. Martha was running a thriving catering company in Connecticut and decided that she wanted to preserve all the memories and recipes she created for the events she catered, so she wrote a book to share them with people who wanted ideas for their own parties.</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1990, she started her own magazine, <em>Martha Stewart Living</em>, serving as editor-in-chief. The publication was an immediate success. Appearances on the Oprah Winfrey and Larry King television programs led to a regular weekly spot on the CBS <em>Early Show</em> as well as a series of holiday specials on the network. In 1993 she debuted a weekly half-hour television program, also called <em>Martha Stewart Living</em>. Half an hour once a week was not enough for her growing audience, and the program eventually expanded to a daily hour-long broadcast, with half-hour episodes on weekends.</p> <figure id="attachment_26852" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-26852" style="width: 1200px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-26852 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206im_/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-Stewart-living-2009.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-26852 lazyload" alt="2009 issue of Martha Stewart "Living" magazine. In 1990, Stewart signed with Time Publishing Ventures to develop a new magazine, "Martha Stewart Living," for which Stewart would serve as editor-in-chief." width="1200" height="1414" data-sizes="(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-Stewart-living-2009.jpg 1200w, /web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-Stewart-living-2009-322x380.jpg 322w, /web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-Stewart-living-2009-645x760.jpg 645w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-Stewart-living-2009.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-26852" class="wp-caption-text">2009 issue of <em>Martha Stewart Living</em> magazine. In 1990, Martha Stewart signed with Time Publishing Ventures to develop a new lifestyle magazine, <em>Martha Stewart Living</em>, for which Stewart would serve as the editor-in-chief.</figcaption></figure> <p>Martha Stewart’s television appearances had made her not only a household name, but a one-woman industry. A second magazine, <em>Martha Stewart Weddings</em>, began appearing regularly in 1993. Stewart’s merchandise and licensing operations were also growing; she signed an advertising and consulting contract with retailer Kmart for a reported $5 million. In 1997, she purchased all of the publishing, broadcasting, merchandise and licensing ventures bearing her name and consolidated them into a new company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSLO). When MSLO went public in 1999, the share price more than doubled on the first day of trading. Martha Stewart retained most of the shares in her company, while serving as chairman, president and CEO.</p> <figure id="attachment_26858" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-26858" style="width: 628px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="wp-image-26858 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206im_/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/martha-stewart-weddings-fall-2016-cover-cropped-w0916-0816_horiz_0.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-26858 size-full lazyload" alt="Martha Stewart Weddings" width="628" height="843" data-sizes="(max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/martha-stewart-weddings-fall-2016-cover-cropped-w0916-0816_horiz_0.jpg 628w, /web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/martha-stewart-weddings-fall-2016-cover-cropped-w0916-0816_horiz_0-283x380.jpg 283w, /web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/martha-stewart-weddings-fall-2016-cover-cropped-w0916-0816_horiz_0-566x760.jpg 566w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/martha-stewart-weddings-fall-2016-cover-cropped-w0916-0816_horiz_0.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-26858" class="wp-caption-text"><em>Martha Stewart Weddings </em>began appearing in 1993. Her merchandise and licensing operations were also growing.</figcaption></figure> <p>In 2001, <em>Ladies Home Journal</em> named her the third most powerful woman in America. By 2002, the magazine <em>Martha Stewart Living</em> was selling more than two million copies per issue, and her syndicated television program was seen by millions around the world. In June of that year, she accepted an invitation to join the board of directors of the New York Stock Exchange, but resigned her seat only four months later, when the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission accused her of violating insider trading rules. The charges led to a lengthy investigation by the Justice Department. MSLO’s share price fell, Stewart’s television program was canceled, and as the company’s losses mounted, many doubted it could ever recover.</p> <figure id="attachment_35698" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-35698" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-35698 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206im_/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wp-Stewart-Martha-1995-Summit-1.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-35698 lazyload" alt="Martha Stewart and Raymond W. Smith at the 1995 Banquet of the Golden Plate ceremonies in Williamsburg, Virginia." width="2280" height="1566" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wp-Stewart-Martha-1995-Summit-1.jpg 2280w, /web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wp-Stewart-Martha-1995-Summit-1-380x261.jpg 380w, /web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wp-Stewart-Martha-1995-Summit-1-760x522.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wp-Stewart-Martha-1995-Summit-1.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-35698" class="wp-caption-text">On the headtable at the 1995 Banquet of the Golden Plate ceremonies in Williamsburg, Virginia, three Academy members: Martha Stewart, Raymond W. Smith (Chairman of Bell Atlantic), and Terry Semel (CEO of Warner Bros.).</figcaption></figure> <p>Although Martha Stewart maintained her innocence of all charges, she was brought to trial in the first months of 2004. The court dismissed the original accusation of insider trading from which the other charges stemmed, but in March, the jury found her guilty of misleading federal investigators and obstructing an investigation. Her stockbroker and the CEO of the involved company were also convicted. The court ordered Stewart to pay a $30,000 fine and serve a five-month prison sentence. Although she initially planned to appeal her conviction, she ultimately decided to accept the sentence rather than pursue an appeals process that could drag on for years. She was confined from October 2004 to March 2005. Her imprisonment was followed by two years of supervised release, including five months of electronic monitoring.</p> <figure id="attachment_30096" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-30096" style="width: 3144px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-30096 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206im_/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wp-marthastewartw_goldenplate.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-30096 lazyload" alt="Martha Stewart, American Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award, "Salute to Excellence"" width="3144" height="2190" data-sizes="(max-width: 3144px) 100vw, 3144px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wp-marthastewartw_goldenplate.jpg 3144w, /web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wp-marthastewartw_goldenplate-380x265.jpg 380w, /web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wp-marthastewartw_goldenplate-760x529.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wp-marthastewartw_goldenplate.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-30096" class="wp-caption-text">Awards Council member Martha Stewart presents the American Academy of Achievement’s Golden Plate Award to Peter Georgescu, chairman of Young & Rubicam, during the 1997 “Salute to Excellence” program in Baltimore, MD.</figcaption></figure> <p>After her release, Stewart immediately set about rebuilding her business. She began a new daily television program, <em>The Martha Stewart Show</em>, as well as a weekly call-in show on the Sirius satellite radio network. In a new book, <em>The Martha Rules</em>, she shared her strategy for starting and managing a new business. More new books followed, including <em>The Martha Stewart Baking Handbook</em> and <em>Homekeeping Handbook</em>. She made regular appearances on <em>The Today Show</em>, while her own program was nominated for six daytime Emmy Awards. Within a year of her release, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia had returned to profitability.</p> <figure id="attachment_26855" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-26855" style="width: 880px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-26855 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206im_/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/martha-stewarts-daughter-alexis-will-have-baby-via-surrogate.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-26855 lazyload" alt="April 28, 2006: Martha Stewart and her daughter, Alexis Gilbert Stewart, at the 33rd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards." width="880" height="1398" data-sizes="(max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/martha-stewarts-daughter-alexis-will-have-baby-via-surrogate.jpg 880w, /web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/martha-stewarts-daughter-alexis-will-have-baby-via-surrogate-239x380.jpg 239w, /web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/martha-stewarts-daughter-alexis-will-have-baby-via-surrogate-478x760.jpg 478w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/martha-stewarts-daughter-alexis-will-have-baby-via-surrogate.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-26855" class="wp-caption-text">April 28, 2006: Martha Stewart and her daughter, Alexis Gilbert Stewart, at the 33rd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards.</figcaption></figure> <p>After fulfilling all the terms of her plea agreement, Martha Stewart rejoined the board of Martha Stewart Omnimedia in 2011, and the following year resumed her role as chairman. Today MSLO operates in four main areas: publishing, Internet, broadcasting and merchandising, all of which cross-promote content and products.</p> <figure id="attachment_26835" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-26835" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><noscript><img class="wp-image-26835 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206im_/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/CS1010_0036a.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-26835 size-full lazyload" alt="Evan Lobel and Martha Stewart are seen in this photo from the production of "Martha's Cooking School" in New York on May 16, 2012. The new series, which airs on PBS, “gives home cooks a culinary master class with Martha herself,” according to PBS.com. “She will demonstrate classic cooking techniques and basics. Using her signature step-by-step, how-to teaching process, Martha illustrates cooking fundamentals that everyone should know: from roasting and poaching to braising and blanching.” (Rob Tannenbaum/MSLO)" width="2280" height="1517" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/CS1010_0036a.jpg 2280w, /web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/CS1010_0036a-380x253.jpg 380w, /web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/CS1010_0036a-760x506.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/CS1010_0036a.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-26835" class="wp-caption-text">Evan Lobel and Martha Stewart are seen in this photo from the production of <em>Martha’s Cooking School</em> in New York on May 16, 2012. The new TV series, which airs on PBS, “gives home cooks a culinary master class with Martha herself,” according to PBS.com. “She will demonstrate classic cooking techniques and basics. Using her signature step-by-step, how-to teaching process, Martha illustrates cooking fundamentals that everyone should know.”</figcaption></figure> <p>In addition to an ever-expanding library of book titles, the publishing arm issues the magazines <em>Martha Stewart Living</em>, <em>Weddings</em>, <em>Everyday Food</em> and <em>Whole Living</em>, as well as special issues on family and holiday themes. MSLO’s Internet presence, <em>marthastewart.com</em>, features content from Martha’s television and radio programs, as well as magazine content, while the magazines <em>Whole Living</em> and <em>Weddings</em> have websites of their own.</p> <figure id="attachment_26847" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-26847" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><noscript><img class="wp-image-26847 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206im_/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-Stewart-Acquisition.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-26847 size-full lazyload" alt="In this March 5, 2013 file photo, Martha Stewart arrives to court in New York. Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. signed a deal to be acquired by Sequential Brands Group Inc. in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about $353 million, according to a statement released June 22, 2015. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)" width="2280" height="3637" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-Stewart-Acquisition.jpg 2280w, /web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-Stewart-Acquisition-238x380.jpg 238w, /web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-Stewart-Acquisition-476x760.jpg 476w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-Stewart-Acquisition.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-26847" class="wp-caption-text">March 5, 2013: Martha Stewart arrives to court in New York. Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. signed a deal to be acquired by Sequential Brands Group Inc. in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about $353 million. (AP Photo)</figcaption></figure> <p>Martha Stewart has expanded her merchandise lines, creating product lines for Home Depot, Sears, Macy’s and Walmart, a Martha Stewart brand of wine and a line of fresh and frozen foods. MSLO has even expanded into home construction, building and selling houses modeled after Stewart’s homes in New York and Maine.</p> <figure id="attachment_26843" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-26843" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><noscript><img class="wp-image-26843 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206im_/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha_Pic.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-26843 size-full lazyload" alt="2014: Stewart is an avid animal lover. Her pets include champion show Chow Chow dogs, French bulldogs, Himalayan cats, and Friesian horses." width="2280" height="1254" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha_Pic.jpg 2280w, /web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha_Pic-380x209.jpg 380w, /web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha_Pic-760x418.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha_Pic.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-26843" class="wp-caption-text">2014: Martha Stewart’s pets include champion show Chow Chow dogs, French bulldogs and Himalayan cats.</figcaption></figure> <p>The broadcasting arm has produced the PBS program <em>Everyday Food</em> and the <em>Martha Stewart Living</em> radio program. In 2010, MSLO announced that the syndicated <em>Martha Stewart Show</em>, recorded before a live television audience, moved to the Hallmark Channel as <em>Martha</em> for two seasons, while she introduced <em>Martha Bakes</em> on the Hallmark Channel, and <em>Martha Stewart’s Cooking School</em> on PBS. In fall 2016, she unveiled a new broadcasting venture, <em>Martha and Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party</em>, co-hosted by Martha Stewart and rapper Snoop Dogg, airing on cable channel VH1.</p> <figure id="attachment_26836" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-26836" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><noscript><img class="wp-image-26836 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206im_/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/d88b80d2-f55e-42da-a485-0c60fdf94b83.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-26836 size-full lazyload" alt="June 14, 2016: Sequential Brands Group, Inc. and Marley Spoon, Inc. announced today the launch of Martha & Marley Spoon, a meal-kit delivery service featuring Martha Stewart's award-winning recipes and smart cooking techniques. Delivered and designed with simple weeknight cooking in mind, Martha & Marley Spoon provides delicious recipes and pre-portioned seasonal ingredients that reflect Martha's love for nutritious and creative home cooking. In 2015, Sequential Brands Group acquired Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. for about $300 million." width="2280" height="1417" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/d88b80d2-f55e-42da-a485-0c60fdf94b83.jpg 2280w, /web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/d88b80d2-f55e-42da-a485-0c60fdf94b83-380x236.jpg 380w, /web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/d88b80d2-f55e-42da-a485-0c60fdf94b83-760x472.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/d88b80d2-f55e-42da-a485-0c60fdf94b83.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-26836" class="wp-caption-text">June 14, 2016: Sequential Brands Group, Inc. and Marley Spoon, Inc. announced today the launch of Martha & Marley Spoon, a meal-kit delivery service featuring Martha Stewart’s award-winning recipes and smart cooking techniques. Delivered and designed with simple weeknight cooking in mind, Martha & Marley Spoon provides delicious recipes and pre-portioned seasonal ingredients that reflect Martha’s love for nutritious and creative home cooking. Sequential Brands Group acquired Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia for about $300 million.</figcaption></figure> <p>Over the years, Martha Stewart has shown patience and good humor in the face of the criticism and satire that are the inevitable lot of public figures in the mass media. The quiet stoicism she displayed through her trial and imprisonment — and the perseverance with which she rebuilt her business empire — have won the admiration of many who never bought her books or watched her television program. While the company she founded continues to thrive, Martha Stewart has had more influence on how Americans eat, entertain, and decorate their homes and gardens than any one person in our history.</p> </body></html> <div class="clearfix"> </div> </article> </div> </section> </div> <div class="tab-pane" id="profile" role="tabpanel"> <section class="clearfix"> <header class="editorial-article__header"> <figure class="text-xs-center"> <img class="inductee-badge" src="/web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/themes/aoa/assets/images/inducted-badge@2x.png" alt="Inducted Badge" width="120" height="120"/> <figcaption class="serif-3 text-brand-primary"> Inducted in 1995 </figcaption> </figure> </header> <div class="row"> <aside class="col-md-4 sidebar"> <dl class="clearfix m-b-0"> <div class="col-xs-12 sidebar--chunk p-b-2"> <dt class="serif-7">Career</dt> <dd class="sans-2"> <div><a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/#filter=.entrepreneur">Entrepreneur</a></div> </dd> </div> <div class="col-xs-12 sidebar--chunk p-b-2"> <dt class="serif-7">Date of Birth</dt> <dd class="sans-2"> August 3, 1941 </dd> </div> </dl> </aside> <article class="col-md-8 editorial-article clearfix"> <p class="inputTextFirst">“I have set a standard, and I’m going to stick to the standard. I may have been able to grow faster and maybe my business could have been bigger, but because I really feel very serious about my subject, I really want to be hands-on.”</p> <p class="inputText">It is hard for most of us to imagine how Martha Stewart’s business could have grown any bigger or any faster, but it is typical that she can imagine it herself. She had already enjoyed successful careers as a fashion model and stockbroker before starting her first catering business in 1976. In a few years, a venture she started in her basement kitchen had become a multimillion-dollar industry.</p> <p class="inputText">Her vision of simple but elegant living has reached the public through dozens of lavishly illustrated bestselling books, through instructional videos and television specials, her own lifestyle magazine, branded housewares, and a daily television program. She has been celebrated as the “Queen of the Home” and America’s premier lifestyle authority. She has faced more than her share of challenges as a public person, and as a corporate leader, but she has kept her good humor through crisis and controversy, and that may prove the most remarkable accomplishment of all.</p> </article> </div> </section> </div> <div class="tab-pane" id="interview" role="tabpanel"> <section class="clearfix"> <div class="col-md-12 interview-feature-video"> <figure> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/sEHvES006JY?feature=oembed&hd=1&modestbranding=1&rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Stewart-Martha-2000-Upscale-1of2.00_10_14_26.Still001-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Stewart-Martha-2000-Upscale-1of2.00_10_14_26.Still001-760x428.jpg"></div> <div class="video-tag sans-4"> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> <div class="video-tag__text">Watch full interview</div> </div> </div> </figure> </div> <header class="col-md-12 text-xs-center m-b-2"> <i class="icon-icon_bio text-brand-primary"></i> </header> <aside class="col-md-4 sidebar"> <h2 class="serif-3 achiever--biography-subtitle">Discovering Everyday Good Things</h2> <div class="sans-2">Williamsburg, Virginia</div> <div class="sans-2">June 2, 1995</div> </aside> <article class="editorial-article col-md-8">   <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p><strong>You went through a number of career transitions. You built a successful catering business in the 1970s and then became a successful author. When did that metamorphosis come about?</strong></p> <p>Martha Stewart: That came in about 1979 when I realized that the work I was doing, which was original and creative, the preparation of food, the serving of food, the building of a business from a basement, it was just the time when women were finally thinking, oh boy, we better get back to work. I agreed. I agreed that we could — but I agreed — and I thought that we could probably do it from home.</p> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/Y_5o_Lvmx2c?feature=oembed&hd=1&modestbranding=1&rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Stewart-Martha-2000-Upscale-1of2.00_30_49_09.Still007-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Stewart-Martha-2000-Upscale-1of2.00_30_49_09.Still007-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/keys-to-success/preparation/">Preparation</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>I had to fight town regulations and rules and laws. I had to persuade the health departments that I could cook from my home. I had to fight very difficult neighbor problems. And yet I was sort of paving the way for a lot of women to go back to work. And it’s — it was very interesting. I could have done it very differently. I could have just left my house and gone to a catering kitchen somewhere and spent all my days there, 12, 15, 20 hours a day somewhere else but because I stayed at home, because I still went out and picked the vegetables from my garden, and gathered the eggs from my chickens, and used all those things and the flowering roses and the lilies and everything from my garden, I created a style that I couldn’t have done if I hadn’t been organically interested in what was going on around me. And that is what gave me my edge and gave me the opportunity to realize that what I was doing was art. It was a kind of art that I could create a book from, and I wrote that landmark book.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body data-rsssl="1"><figure id="attachment_26848" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-26848" style="width: 1600px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><noscript><img class="wp-image-26848 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206im_/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-Stewart-Entertaining1.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-26848 size-full lazyload" alt="On December 13, 1982, Martha's first book, "Entertaining," was released. Martha was running a thriving catering company in Connecticut, and decided that she wanted to preserve all the memories and recipes she created for the events she catered, so she wrote a book to share them with people who wanted ideas for their own parties." width="1600" height="1312" data-sizes="(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-Stewart-Entertaining1.jpg 1600w, /web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-Stewart-Entertaining1-380x312.jpg 380w, /web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-Stewart-Entertaining1-760x623.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-Stewart-Entertaining1.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-26848" class="wp-caption-text">On December 13, 1982, Martha’s first book, <em>Entertaining</em>, was released. Martha was running a thriving catering company in Connecticut, and decided that she wanted to preserve all the memories and recipes she created for the events she catered, so she wrote a book to share them with people who wanted ideas for their own parties.</figcaption></figure> <p><strong>How did you manage to get it published?</strong></p> </body></html> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/Um83uE1T8vo?feature=oembed&hd=1&modestbranding=1&rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Stewart-Martha-2000-Upscale-1of2.00_07_14_19.Still004-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Stewart-Martha-2000-Upscale-1of2.00_07_14_19.Still004-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>The publisher, Alan Merkin, who was the head of Clarks and Potter, Crown Books, he — I did a party for him. I catered a huge, huge party and he was so entranced that he asked me if I would do a book. So I did the book and I — somehow they realized that this was going to be an unusual book and that they at first wanted it to be in black and white. I said, “Oh, a food book like this cannot be in black and white. A lifestyle book has to be in color. You have to show people the beauty,” and I learned that from my husband’s publishing experience. You don’t show a painting necessarily, a Monet, in black and white. You kind of lose something if you do. You don’t show a landscape of vegetables and fruits in black and white.</p> <p>It didn’t cost that much more and I knew that. I knew that again from the production of art books. I also knew that publishing — I mean, they were going to start publishing — printing 20,000 copies, which was a lot of copies in those days. I thought — I said, “Oh, my gosh. I know 20,000 people that will buy this book. I think you better print more.” They did. They printed 35,000 copies. It sold out immediately. They had to go back to press. It was a $35 book. It was expensive in those days, too. And yet it was such an instant hit, such an instant gratifying experience for me and I was — I became an expert overnight. And that’s what a book does. I mean when you hear all the authors outside, it’s that first book that makes you an expert even if it’s schlock.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body data-rsssl="1"><figure id="attachment_26864" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-26864" style="width: 1040px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><noscript><img class="wp-image-26864 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206im_/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/msl-cover-holiday-1990_vert.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-26864 size-full lazyload" alt="In 1990, Stewart signed with Time Publishing Ventures to develop a new magazine, "Martha Stewart Living," for which Stewart would serve as editor-in-chief. The first issue was released in late 1990." width="1040" height="1300" data-sizes="(max-width: 1040px) 100vw, 1040px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/msl-cover-holiday-1990_vert.jpg 1040w, /web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/msl-cover-holiday-1990_vert-304x380.jpg 304w, /web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/msl-cover-holiday-1990_vert-608x760.jpg 608w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/msl-cover-holiday-1990_vert.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-26864" class="wp-caption-text">In 1990, Stewart signed with Time Publishing Ventures to develop a new lifestyle magazine, <em>Martha Stewart Living</em>.</figcaption></figure> </body></html> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/SMc-FhDTj-k?feature=oembed&hd=1&modestbranding=1&rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Stewart-Martha-2000-Upscale-1of2.00_31_44_25.Still008-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Stewart-Martha-2000-Upscale-1of2.00_31_44_25.Still008-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/keys-to-success/integrity/">Integrity</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>You have to live up to a reputation of excellence. I, of course, was writing nonfiction so I had a grave responsibility to make sure the recipes worked, that the ideas were original, that the inspiration was there, that the photography was beautiful, that the production of the book itself was beautiful. Well, little did I know I was making a brand and that has come much later. I didn’t realize about branding until much later, although I had a natural inclination to create a brand. And that doesn’t happen very often. I have been told that by many advertising executives, by many Madison Avenue types that what I was doing was really making a brand, developing it, nurturing it, building it, protecting it.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body data-rsssl="1"><figure id="attachment_26872" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-26872" style="width: 1911px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><noscript><img class="wp-image-26872 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206im_/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/today-martha-stewart-update-140202-18.today-ss-slide-desktop.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-26872 size-full lazyload" alt="Martha Stewart is a regular contributor of cooking, crafts, and gardening segments on NBC's "Today" show." width="1911" height="1200" data-sizes="(max-width: 1911px) 100vw, 1911px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/today-martha-stewart-update-140202-18.today-ss-slide-desktop.jpg 1911w, /web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/today-martha-stewart-update-140202-18.today-ss-slide-desktop-380x239.jpg 380w, /web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/today-martha-stewart-update-140202-18.today-ss-slide-desktop-760x477.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/today-martha-stewart-update-140202-18.today-ss-slide-desktop.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-26872" class="wp-caption-text">Martha Stewart is a regular contributor of cooking, crafts, and gardening segments on NBC’s <em>Today</em> show.</figcaption></figure> <p><strong>The evolution of your brand, not intentionally, but just in the spirit of what you were doing, might be said to be the next period of metamorphosis. </strong></p> </body></html> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/SFhHKpmLfyk?feature=oembed&hd=1&modestbranding=1&rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Stewart-Martha-2000-Upscale-1of2.00_29_35_28.Still006-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Stewart-Martha-2000-Upscale-1of2.00_29_35_28.Still006-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/keys-to-success/perseverance/">Perseverance</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>I could write. I was prolific. I could write a book a year. To great advantage, I could get it on the bestseller list. My publisher was very happy. And I just kept writing, writing, writing, writing. Working so hard on these books but having the greatest time. And gradually becoming very well known in the country and again what everyone says, you know, she’s such a self promoter, but it wasn’t about self promotion. It was about filling voids. Every time I wrote a book it was to fill a void that I and my friends had to have filled. So when I wrote a book about hors d’oeuvres it was because there wasn’t a great book about hors d’oeuvres. I mean, it’s not self promotion to write a book about hors d’oeuvres, but I went out on the road and I lectured. I did fantastic fundraising for numbers of charities and groups like young women’s clubs, junior leagues, everywhere.</p> <p>And I — I kept that library of books totally alive for me and my publisher. So that ten years after I published <em>Entertaining</em>, I sold more copies that year than the first year. So I kept going and I got snowballing. Every single book was a big bestseller. The library is still alive and well and I have 27 books now.</p> <p>And it is — and they sell tremendous numbers, and it’s exciting that the voice is found, the brand is built, the information is evergreen, terribly important to me never to write anything that isn’t evergreen and fits into an asset library for me and my company now that’s very valuable.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body data-rsssl="1"><figure id="attachment_26844" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-26844" style="width: 2048px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><noscript><img class="wp-image-26844 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206im_/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha_Stewart_at_Met_Opera.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-26844 size-full lazyload" alt="2008: Martha Stewart at the Metropolitan Opera opening." width="2048" height="3072" data-sizes="(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha_Stewart_at_Met_Opera.jpg 2048w, /web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha_Stewart_at_Met_Opera-253x380.jpg 253w, /web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha_Stewart_at_Met_Opera-507x760.jpg 507w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha_Stewart_at_Met_Opera.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-26844" class="wp-caption-text">2008: Martha Stewart at The Metropolitan Opera opening night gala celebrating their 125th anniversary season.</figcaption></figure> </body></html> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/5GyZfVo67vM?feature=oembed&hd=1&modestbranding=1&rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Stewart-Martha-2000-Upscale-1of2.00_25_38_02.Still005-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Stewart-Martha-2000-Upscale-1of2.00_25_38_02.Still005-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>In 1990 I start a magazine. This is a big deal because in 1990 many magazines were shutting down. It was an economic downturn. Advertising revenues for most companies were at a nadir. I come up with this idea for a magazine called <em>Living</em>, which incorporates everything that has to do about living, living well, how to.</p> <p>And Time Warner thought it was a good idea. Very unusual for them because generally they didn’t really — they were buying dying magazines or buying magazines in trouble. They had started a magazine called <em>People</em> magazine, which was a huge success. They didn’t quite know if this magazine was going to be such a success but it was an instant success.</p> <p>And again it was because we didn’t have to persuade advertisers. We were lucky. We had the funding. It wasn’t a lot of money but we had the funding to allow us to take our time to create magazines that would encourage not only readers but also advertisers that what we were trying to do was really valuable.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body data-rsssl="1"><p>And it has been a wonderful success because we now have 2.3 million subscribers to that magazine. It has grown consistently for the last ten years. We are ten years old this year (2000). And it’s a big deal for us that this magazine has held up. It has won lots of awards. It’s beautifully designed. It only gets better. As I open issue after issue I just feel so good that the information is as good as it was and even better, and that’s what we want.</p> <figure id="attachment_26832" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-26832" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><noscript><img class="wp-image-26832 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206im_/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/AP10050401311.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-26832 size-full lazyload" alt="2010: Martha Stewart attends the TIME 100 Most Influential People in the World Gala, held at the Time Warner Center in New York City. (AP Photo/Jennifer Graylock)" width="2280" height="2975" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/AP10050401311.jpg 2280w, /web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/AP10050401311-291x380.jpg 291w, /web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/AP10050401311-582x760.jpg 582w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/AP10050401311.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-26832" class="wp-caption-text">2010: Martha Stewart attends the TIME 100 Most Influential People in the World Gala, held in New York City.</figcaption></figure> <p><strong>How do you account for your success?</strong></p> <p>Martha Stewart: I’ve tried to figure out why it happens to a person, because I feel that I’m the same person that I’ve always been. I have grown and become probably smarter in my work, and developed and built a business that’s growing, and growing, and growing. But I’m basically the same person. My likes are the same. My tastes may have gotten a little better, or a little bit more educated. But still, I always get up and clean out the kitty litter. You know, I make sure everybody is home, all the animals. I go down through the garden and prune, and pick, and do all those things. I keep grounded, and by keeping grounded you can then see very clearly what’s happened to you.</p> </body></html> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/WaTUP4F-v74?feature=oembed&hd=1&modestbranding=1&rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Stewart-Martha-2000-Upscale-1of2.00_11_17_06.Still002-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Stewart-Martha-2000-Upscale-1of2.00_11_17_06.Still002-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/keys-to-success/perseverance/">Perseverance</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>The subject matter that I am really spending my time on has become an acceptable subject matter, living, lifestyle, family is now in the forefront of interest in America. And I’ve just stuck with it… I mean, I’ve been doing this for years, and I never got angry. I never said, you know, listen, I’m fighting for this subject. It’s not… that wasn’t my point. My point was to continue working in a subject matter, knowing full well that finally it would be recognized as a viable subject once again.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body data-rsssl="1"><figure id="attachment_26831" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-26831" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><noscript><img class="wp-image-26831 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206im_/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/ad9a4706.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-26831 size-full lazyload" alt="December 6, 2011: Martha Stewart lends her support to help raise funds for individuals with autism and their families. Autism Speaks co-founders Suzanne and Bob Wright, and New York Center for Autism (NYCA) co-founders Laura and Harry Slatkin, honored iconic fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger for his commitment to increasing awareness and support of the autism community at A Funny Affair for Autism –a star-studded evening of fashion and comedy that helped raise over 1.3 million dollars for individuals with autism and their families." width="2280" height="1520" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/ad9a4706.jpg 2280w, /web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/ad9a4706-380x253.jpg 380w, /web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/ad9a4706-760x507.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/ad9a4706.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-26831" class="wp-caption-text">December 6, 2011: Martha Stewart lends her support to help raise funds for individuals with autism and their families. Autism Speaks co-founders Suzanne and Bob Wright, and New York Center for Autism co-founders Laura and Harry Slatkin, honored the  iconic fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger for his commitment to increasing the awareness and support of the autism community at A Funny Affair for Autism — a star-studded evening of fashion.</figcaption></figure> </body></html> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/9qaqRnwsxd0?feature=oembed&hd=1&modestbranding=1&rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Stewart-Martha-2000-Upscale-1of2.00_11_29_19.Still003-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Stewart-Martha-2000-Upscale-1of2.00_11_29_19.Still003-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>The big, big turning point was when I wrote my first book. Americans look at you very differently, respect you greatly more when you write a book. The printed word, no matter… I mean it doesn’t even matter if it’s good, you have become an expert in everyone’s viewpoint. Or if you become a television star, you know, a talk show host, or something, then you’re the expert. You may not be, but it’s the perception. And that I’ve written 12 books after that book, and they’ve all been really well received and good books. I mean, I don’t do anything unless I think it’s going to be good, I’m real picky about that. And I have set a standard, and I’m going to stick to the standard. I may have been able to grow faster and maybe my business could have been bigger, but because I really feel very serious about my subject, I really want to be hands-on.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body data-rsssl="1"><p><strong>What are the most important characteristics for success?</strong></p> <figure id="attachment_26860" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-26860" style="width: 2048px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><noscript><img class="wp-image-26860 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206im_/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-thinks-very-important-walk-down-aisle-dress.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-26860 size-full lazyload" alt="Martha with her daughter, Alexis. (Image Source: Getty/Todd Plitt)" width="2048" height="3072" data-sizes="(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-thinks-very-important-walk-down-aisle-dress.jpg 2048w, /web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-thinks-very-important-walk-down-aisle-dress-253x380.jpg 253w, /web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-thinks-very-important-walk-down-aisle-dress-507x760.jpg 507w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-thinks-very-important-walk-down-aisle-dress.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-26860" class="wp-caption-text">Martha with her daughter, Alexis, a television host and radio personality. (Image Source: Getty/Todd Plitt)</figcaption></figure> <p>Martha Stewart: For me it’s a dedication to your real interests. It’s an ability to be open-minded. Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success. The great artists have been open-minded, even though they may seem, like Picasso, to be very directed, you can be directed and open-minded at the same time. I think you have to be really intensely serious about your work, but not so serious that you can’t see the lightness that may also involve your life. You have to have that lightness too. You have to not be so heavy-handed and so ostentatious. It’s very important not to be.</p> <figure id="attachment_26859" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-26859" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><noscript><img class="wp-image-26859 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206im_/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/martha-stewart-with-dessert-1037-d112925.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-26859 size-full lazyload" alt="2016: Martha filming her television series, "Martha Bakes." Throughout the series Martha Stewart shares the best tips and techniques, giving viewers the confidence to create delectable baked goods -- from scratch -- in their own kitchens." width="2280" height="1520" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/martha-stewart-with-dessert-1037-d112925.jpg 2280w, /web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/martha-stewart-with-dessert-1037-d112925-380x253.jpg 380w, /web/20200917235206im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/martha-stewart-with-dessert-1037-d112925-760x507.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206/https://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/martha-stewart-with-dessert-1037-d112925.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-26859" class="wp-caption-text">2016: Martha filming her television series, <em>Martha Bakes</em>. Martha Stewart shares the best tips and techniques, giving viewers the confidence to create delectable baked goods — from scratch — in their own kitchens.</figcaption></figure> </body></html> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235206if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/VVejwdlJDLY?feature=oembed&hd=1&modestbranding=1&rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Stewart-Martha-2000-Upscale-1of2.00_36_23_20.Still010-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Stewart-Martha-2000-Upscale-1of2.00_36_23_20.Still010-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/keys-to-success/integrity/">Integrity</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>I live in the same house I’ve lived in for 25 years. I haven’t gone off and bought mansions, you know, even though my subject is living… living in a mansion wouldn’t do for my readers. I have to keep my credibility alive with my readers, so we’re in the same place. I just make that place nicer and nicer. And… and that’s a secret. And people don’t know that. People think, oh, she lives in this fabulous place, it’s the same old place. It started out like a farm, it got to be a farmette, then it got to be an estatelet. I built a wall, it helped a lot. But it’s the same place, the same grounded nature. And… and as I evolve, I hope my readers evolve, I hope my viewers evolve. And also, I think it’s very important that… that whatever you’re trying to make or sell, or teach, has to be good… basically good. A bad product… and you know what, you won’t be here in ten years. You might be rich, you might be famous, but you’re not going to be here in ten years.</p> </div> </div>     <aside class="collapse" id="full-interview">    <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p><strong>What were you like as a girl, growing up?</strong></p> <p>Martha Stewart: I was the girl next door. I was the girl that all parents held up as the example to their daughters. Why can’t you be like Martha? Martha is the good girl. Martha is the good student. Martha helps her mom. Martha is the big sister. Martha knows a lot. She can iron a shirt but she can also write an A paper. So it’s that kind of thing, which is — I remember all of that very clearly. And my interests — well, I was a big reader. I still am. I was very curious. I still am. I was interested in many, many, many things and I still am.</p> <p><strong>So much so that you would be interested in such a range of things that you could not tell me, for example, two or three particular passions that you may have had at that point?</strong></p> <p>Martha Stewart: Well, reading but reading over a broad number of subjects.</p> <p><strong>Not just novels, not just —</strong></p> <p>Martha Stewart: No, it wasn’t at all. I devoured any magazine that came into the house. I particularly remember reading the <em>Herald Tribune</em> every day. I remember some of the columnists. I remember reading <em>Life</em> magazine, which was kind of interesting then. I also remember reading <em>Outdoor Life</em>, which was my brother’s magazine. I read every single page and every single caption of the <em>National Geographic</em> as it arrived. I had first choice. In our family we had six kids.</p> <p><strong>Six kids.</strong></p> <p>Martha Stewart: Yeah.</p> <p><strong>And you were where in the order?</strong></p> <p>Martha Stewart: I was second but I always had first choice because I got to the mailbox first. And so — and my parents were really nice. They let me go to the library. That was the one place I was free to go as many times during the week as I chose and I’d have to walk there or ride my bike there. It wasn’t convenient but I was allowed to go there at any time. And I was also allowed to read pretty much any time I wanted to read. My lights — I had no lights out.</p> <p>In third grade I won the contest at the public library for being able to get a score of a hundred on a reading test. The reading test was based on the numbers of books you read, and the amount that you retained from those books. As a special treat, when you were in the Children’s Room, you were allowed to go to the next level of the library, which was the Stockton Room, named after Frank Stockton, a famous author who had lived in our town. And then you got into the Stockton Room if you passed a test. I was the first to pass that test; at a very young age I was allowed to go into the adult library.</p> <p>We had a lot of chores at our house, a tremendous number of chores, but we were always granted the time to read. And I had a reading chair that I sat in and read in. I also had a favorite tree that I sat in and read in. It sounds a little idyllic, sort of Mark Twainish, but it was true. I would find a quiet place. On Sunday mornings, because we had such chaos around our house, everybody running and getting dressed to go to church and everything, I sat in the car and read. I read everything. I read from A to Z in the Stockton Room. I just started on the As and went all the way through.</p> <p>In the adult library I had to be more choosy because there were so many books. But I would talk to the librarians, I would get suggestions, I would read the book reviews, I would find out what I should be reading. So it was kind of an informal against structured kind of existence.</p> <p>I read everything from all the Europeans, the Russians, the English novelists. I read an awful lot of biographies that were very inspiring. In the children’s library there were those orange books. I don’t know if you remember those orange biographies of everybody, everyone from Harriet Beecher Stowe to the presidents. I read every single one. So that was a good experience.</p> <p><strong>Anything you wanted to read?</strong></p> <p>Martha Stewart: Anything I wanted to read. I remember reading certain books that at that time were considered dirty or promiscuous or something. One was — Burt Lancaster was in the movie and it was a fantastic story. I remember reading the one with Natalie Wood, <em>Marjorie Morningstar</em>. That was taken out of the library for a while after I read it because I expressed an interest in it. I told a lot of my friends about it and they took it out of the library.</p> <p><strong>So it was really the library that was concerned but your parents not?</strong></p> <p>Martha Stewart: Oh, no. My parents were not at all concerned about what I read because they thought I had a good head on my shoulders and that I could absorb what I was reading. I remember reading <em>The Scarlet Letter</em> when I was 12 years old and having a very lengthy discussion about adultery with my father who went to great lengths to, you know, examine the subject with me. I mean, it was a really difficult conversation we had over a period of weeks and I wrote a big paper on it. And I remember not getting an A on the paper. I think I got a B or something and I was kind of upset because I was really an expert on adultery at that time for my age. And I think it kind of shocked the teacher. But</p> <p>In our house the teacher was always right. There was no complaining about your teachers because both of my parents were teachers and we did not pick on our teachers. We could say a few little nasty things every now and then but we were reprimanded and I think that that was a very good education for me.</p> <p>I still respect very highly teachers in general and I never allowed my daughter to criticize bitterly her teachers as many students do nowadays. The lack of respect is kind of hideous to me and I think that that lack of respect led to a lot of the problems in the schools and a lot of problems with the occupation of teachers.</p> <p>So I remember in third grade telling my third grade teacher, who I still see by the way — she’s Irene Wyre. I tell her — and I told her then that I wanted to be a teacher. And although I’m not a formal teacher, I think what I do is teach every day.</p> <p>When I was young, I wanted to be a teacher. I was greatly inspired by my third grade teacher, Miss Irene Wire, and by my fifth grade teacher, Miss Mitchell. My parents were both teachers. So I really pursued that idea as a career, until I got to college.</p> <p>I just saw my third grade teacher last year at my mother’s 80th birthday party. She lives in Newark, New Jersey. She is still as feisty and as honest and as ethical a person as she was when I was in third grade. She’s a tiny little powerhouse of energy. I thought about her a lot when I saw her again. She was special because she took time and cared for each of her students. There wasn’t a moment that wasn’t devoted to her children, as she called them. She was a spinster, but that never deterred in her love of all the other children. In fact, I think it made her more loveable. And she was fair, but she was stern. She was strict, but she was forgiving. She was the ideal teacher to me.</p> <p><strong>And the fifth grade teacher?</strong></p> <p>Martha Stewart: Very much in the same mold. A family person, someone who shared her students with other teachers, because we started to have moving classes in fifth grade. In fifth and sixth grade you traveled from one room to another to study the different subjects. And she would share, and she was fair. It’s the fairness and the ability to listen, and to answer questions that I really find very, very important with teaching.</p> <p><strong>Did your parents have explicit expectations for you? You came from a family of teachers. You clearly connected to teachers. Were you going to be a teacher?</strong></p> <p>Martha Stewart: Oh no. There were no expectations whatsoever other than that I would be a good citizen, that I would be honest, that I would conform a little bit, but not be a bad girl. I think that was really the major expectation. The directive in the house was you can do anything you can set your mind to. Unfortunately, there’s no money for your college education. You have to get a scholarship. You can go anywhere you want but you have to pay for it. So there was already kind of a burden on us as kids in the family.</p> <p>My brother got into college. He had the choice of going to Cornell where he got a small scholarship or the University of Buffalo where he got a full scholarship. He had to go to Buffalo. He became a dentist, a dental surgeon. He has done very well for himself. But I wonder what would have happened if he had gone to Cornell.</p> <p>I, on the other hand, was luckier, I think. I mean, just — just because I was able to get a scholarship that paid enough and I had a job modeling that enabled me to make enough money so that I could go to the school of my choice, which was Barnard College. But I did have to live at home because I couldn’t afford the dormitory charges.</p> <p><strong>Why did you choose Barnard?</strong></p> <p>Martha Stewart: Well, if truth be told, I wanted to go to Stanford but that was California. I had never been to California. I had only seen pictures of California. It was, to me, a romantic place. I don’t mean “romantic” romantic, but I meant, oh my gosh, it’s exotic. It’s far away from home. It would totally free me from my family but my family was having problems, financial problems at the time. I felt very obligated to stay around and contribute to the problems — to the solutions for the problems. And Barnard was such an elegant school, great professors, the proximity to Columbia University was excellent, the library — libraries were utterly fantastic and I was very lucky to get accepted and to go there.</p> <p><strong>So you traveled every day to Barnard?</strong></p> <p>Martha Stewart: Oh, I traveled for the first year every day. It was miserable, very difficult, and then had a job, too. But I did well and the second year was better because I lived near campus, and then I got married.</p> <p><strong>For the time, that wasn’t so early to get married?</strong></p> <p>Martha Stewart: Well, I had never had a boyfriend before so it was kind of strange to fall in love passionately and get married to someone who really desperately wanted to get married and a person who — a kind of mind that I had never known before. So it was kind of interesting. A philosophy major, a deep thinker, a doubter, a pessimist. Where I was totally the opposite.</p> <p>I was brought up with religion. He was brought up with no religion. I was brought up with total optimism. Total “You can do anything.” Kind of Pollyanna. I was Pollyannish, actually. And there I come upon this total opposite. Nice person but total opposite. So it was for me an exciting thing.</p> <p><strong>Was it an act of rebellion?</strong></p> <p>Martha Stewart: Oh no. Not at all. He was acceptable, even though he was not the same religion. He was handsome. He was nice. It wasn’t anything too shocking, except that it was unexpected.</p> <p><strong>Did this interrupt your education or did you stay in college?</strong></p> <p>Martha Stewart: I stayed in school. I commuted from Yale. He was at Yale Law School at the time and I commuted from New Haven, really Guilford to Barnard, which was about four hours on the train every day. A pretty hideous commute, but I think that that’s what got me going in the — I call it “the tread mill of life,” without fear of working too hard, without the fear of spending long hours on something that I endeavored to do. It just didn’t even occur to me that four hours on a train with rattan upright seats was something a little unusual. I just did it. I just did it. And that’s how I’ve done a lot of things in my life. I just do it, and smile later when it’s successful.</p> <p><strong>What were you studying? </strong><strong>Did you have a vision of what you wanted to accomplish?</strong></p> <p>Martha Stewart: In college I discovered the world of chemistry, which I loved. I discovered the world of architectural history. I discovered so many different things that I decided that maybe I would forgo the teaching career for a while. The first thing that really caught me was the stock market. I became a stockbroker, immediately out of college, forgoing architecture school. My dream now, in retrospect then, was to be an eclectic knowledge-gathering person, in order to be able to learn and then to teach. And I’m still doing that, so I think I am a teacher.</p> <p><strong>How did you get from studying architecture to becoming a stockbroker?</strong></p> <p>Martha Stewart: Well, I had a rather complicated major. I was terribly interested in art and art history so I majored in art history but I was also interested in economics so I included economics in that major and then I was also terribly interested in architectural history. So my thesis was on Colbert and the Louvre and the designs for the Louvre. So that was economics. It was history. It was art history and architectural history all kind of rolled into one. So it was a fascinating subject matter and I really liked Barnard for allowing me to do that kind of thing but that’s the kind of place it was.</p> <p><strong>Were you forming an ambition for a career at this point?</strong></p> <p>Martha Stewart: I thought I was going to be an architect.<strong> W</strong>hen I hear Maya Lin, when I hear Ricardo Legorreta, when I talk to Richard Meier or to Frank Gehry, sometimes it sort of like pangs in my heart but I am an architect anyway, so I have a visual career. I am a builder. I work on homes and houses and living places and spaces all the time. I create every day.</p> <p><strong>Did you enroll in an architecture school?</strong></p> <p>Martha Stewart: No, but I had studied a lot of architectural history at Columbia during my Barnard years and I stayed in that library. That’s where I did most of my studying. And yet the lure of business was also kind of interesting, so instead of going to architecture school I went to Wall Street and I took a job with a small firm, and I learned not only how to do research in business and analyze companies, but I also learned how to be a super duper institutional stock broker.</p> <p><strong>How long did you do that?</strong></p> <p>Martha Stewart: For about seven years. I’m like a grasshopper. I metamorphose every seven years.</p> <p><strong>Did you find it satisfying?</strong></p> <p>Martha Stewart: What was satisfying about that job was overcoming my shyness. I didn’t mention shyness but there was a real shyness in me. A shyness to express myself very forcefully and I overcame that shyness being a broker. You can’t sell effectively unless you a really either believe in your subject matter or bullshit yourself into the subject matter.</p> <p>I only sold companies that I was interested in. I made that very clear to my partners that I wouldn’t go and try and sell a piece of research that I didn’t like. So that the companies that I went out and sold were companies that were kind of fascinating to me, like Electronic Data Systems in the early days. I took Ross Perot around on the road when nobody knew who he was. I just had a very interesting conversation with Ned Johnson, who runs Fidelity Funds. He came to my house in Maine for lunch. I haven’t seen Ned for I don’t know how many years — that is like 20 -25 years — and he actually remembered me bringing Ross Perot to Boston.</p> <p><strong>He remembered both of you?</strong></p> <p>Martha Stewart: No, he didn’t remember me. He remembered Ross Perot. He didn’t remember me at all and he was shocked. I remember selling McDonald’s because I really believed in the idea of being able to feed hordes of people inexpensively in clean restaurants cheaply. So I loved that company and that was the time to love that company. It was.</p> <p>I also loved a company called Bandag. I don’t know if you remember that company but they retread tires and I was very conscious of waste, growing up in a family of eight with hardly any resources. We recycled everything. We didn’t waste anything. So that early recycling was kind of interesting to me and that company did very, very well.</p> <p>And then there was another company called Leaseco Data Processing, which leased computers and leased that kind of early equipment, and that, too, I found very interesting because it made that equipment available to a much broader audience than an audience that would have to buy that equipment. I thought Saul Steinberg was really an interesting guy. He turned out to be even more interesting.</p> <p>So that’s the kind of thing that I did and had great clients.</p> <p><strong>So how did you leave the stock market?</strong></p> <p>Martha Stewart: In 1972 I negotiated commissions. I was waking up with hives. I didn’t — wasn’t very happy in the stock market. My child was five. My daughter, Alexis. We moved to Connecticut. I wanted to spend more time with her and I quit my job to the dismay of my partners.</p> <p><strong>Were you at peace with this decision?</strong></p> <p>Martha Stewart: Oh yes, I was. Not realizing how hard it really was to break away from a very interesting group of men — it was all men — who were avid readers, avid collectors, politicians, avid everything. And we had the most fabulous time. To leave New York was another very wrenching move, and then to move to a suburb — Westport, Connecticut — which was an interesting suburb, restore a house from scratch, raise a daughter, start a new business, and live a life which is now the basis, of course, for everything I do.</p> <p><strong>So you constructed the rest of your life in this period. What years were these?</strong></p> <p>Martha Stewart: Well, like ’73 to ’82 was the building of a catering business, which was a difficult, really exhausting, do-it-at-home business, interrupt-the-life business. Work all hours, 20 hours a day was nothing. It’s not new now. It wasn’t new then. So it was a very exhausting kind of physical endeavor that I was doing.</p> <p><strong>Was your husband supportive of this?</strong></p> <p>Martha Stewart: He was at first and became less and less. And he commuted to New York so he sort of lost himself in his job although I never lost interest in what he was doing. He was a publisher. He made art books, very beautiful art books, which I was very interested in. And luckily he did, because in 1982 I wrote my first book and that kind of liberated me from the intenseness of the catering business.</p> <p><strong>It sounds like another metamorphosis.</strong></p> <p>Martha Stewart: It was. That was it. I became an author. I became an expert.</p> <p><strong>After you started publishing your books, were there missteps or disappointments in business? Something that didn’t quite work? </strong></p> <p>Martha Stewart: Not in business. There were no missteps in terms of business at all. Everything went very well. We were really pleased that what we were doing was valued, that what we were doing was trusted, what we were doing encouraged other people to join us along the way and join the company. We started a television show. That was another metamorphosis for me. Personally it’s hard to do a show. Really hard.</p> <p><strong>What year now is this?</strong></p> <p>Martha Stewart: This is 1993 we started a weekly half hour, which grew to a daily half hour, which grew to a daily one hour. And that’s what I’m on now. I’m on a one hour a day schedule. Our programming, which is considered quite valuable by many people, is now visible 21 times a week on national television. So in combination — and you can get it. I mean, what we like to do in our company is let you access your information when you can in your time and we’re waiting so much for broadband. We can’t wait for technology to catch up with what we have in terms of our asset library.</p> <p>That’s the next metamorphosis of course, to take all that content that is evergreen and will never ever go out of date, and make it available again online so that people can access what they need when they need it, when they want it.</p> <p><strong>It seems there are no limits to the scope of the idea, or the need for what you do. Are there limits to your energy? Do you need to extend yourself through support staff?</strong></p> <p>Martha Stewart: We have 500 people working for us now. Not counting freelancers. And there are many people in that group that are just so terrific and able to extend the brand. I call them brand extenders. People who believe, like I do, that information is key, that trusted information is what everyone wants, that people want to learn, and those people are now creating programming for me, magazines for me. We just started a baby magazine. It’s very successful because it’s approaching the subject matter in the same way that I envision a magazine but I’m not personally working on it all the time.</p> <p><strong>But all of this is dependent on the strength, charisma and credibility and trustworthiness of one persona?</strong></p> <p>Martha Stewart: Well, yeah, originally. But now it is Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia that is the trusted entity. It’s not just me. We have an entity now, a public entity. We’re traded on the New York Stock Exchange. We went public last year. Another metamorphosis. I don’t think grasshoppers are metamorphosing faster than every seven years, but technology companies are. Things have speeded up so fast that so much more can happen in a shorter period of time. That’s what keeps you breathless. That’s what keeps you on edge. It is extraordinary what can happen.</p> <p><strong>Were there experiences along the way that inspired you?</strong></p> <p>Martha Stewart: Oh, I have an experience a day, at least. And it’s not like seeing Jesus Christ in a dream or something like that, it’s not a religious kind of experience that I experience daily. It’s more involving nature, involving natural resources, involving a special quote said by a special person.</p> <p>I really found that I was drawn to what I call my mentors. I have developed over the years a whole group of important people, people important to me that I consider mentors. Now, they may be the gardener in the estate down the road. They may be a farmer who milks his cows. They may be a very special professor. All different kinds of people fall into this group of what I call my mentors. It may be someone I’ve never met, but only read, like Garcia Marquez. One of my dreams is to meet him. But those are my mentors. George Eliot, the great novelist. Jane Austen is a mentor of mine, in terms of language. So, I’ve informally constructed this structure in my life of mentors.</p> <p><strong>What do you read these days?</strong></p> <p>Martha Stewart: Now I read constantly. I’m reading lots of different books, but I get inspiration again from those. Nowadays I’m still reading voraciously. Really as an opportunity to learn, to constantly figure out what I really need to know in homes that my reader will have the same desires and the same need. Right now I read a lot of gardening. I read a lot of theory of gardening and landscape. I just acquired an 1805 book by Humphrey Repton, who is one of the great English landscape architects, but who also had a very serious view of how to live and how to structure one’s exterior life. So I’m reading a lot of that stuff. I’m still reading novels. I’m reading James Dickey’s new novel <em>To The White Sea,</em> which is fascinating. But that’s more about the writer’s craft than it is about the stories: the bombing of Tokyo, and fire bombings. Horrible story, beautifully constructed. I’m reading constantly, and it’s very inspiring.</p> <p><strong>Where do you get all this “get-up-and-go?”</strong></p> <p>Martha Stewart: I have a lot of energy. I have a great desire to absorb information. I’m not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at — just walking around Williamsburg, for example — is a great opportunity for ideas. I’ve been here before, I’ve seen things before, but now my eye gets keener and keener. So I can pick up little things: just the pattern of a brick walk, or the way they’ve attached a light to a house.</p> <p>There are jars in all the apothecary shops here that I’ve been trying to find all morning. Now I’m running around looking for these jars, they’re beautiful. They have leather, which you wet and you draw over the top, and it makes a very beautiful cover, a very inexpensive way to cover a jar. You’ll see that in my magazine soon, because I think it’s a real good thing, as I call them.</p> <p>I’m always on the lookout for those good, simple solutions to everyday problems. And it’s the energy that enables me to run around and do the things that I like to do. I don’t need a lot of sleep. I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing. More important is the discovery. And I’m really trying to discover everyday good things.</p> <p>That makes me read, in the night. You know, when most people are sleeping it’s hard to be up and around, so I read. That’s when I get all my reading done. It’s a peculiar life, but it’s fun. I tell you, my daughter is 28 years old, she has the same lifestyle. And she drives her friends crazy, I drive my friends crazy. But she has the same kind of interests. It’s an absorbing kind of curiosity, and it’s nice to have.</p> <p><strong>What does the American Dream mean to you?</strong></p> <p>Martha Stewart: For me, an American Dream, if you read Theodore Dreiser, or you read other people who have written about what they consider the American Dream, it always has to do with monetary success, or poor boy makes good, or that kind of thing. To me that’s not what it’s all about. It’s about, actually, when you get to be my age, having kind of a serenity about your life, and a good feeling about what you have done and what you can still do. And also, believing all the time that there is the freedom to do what you want to do. The ability, in your waking existence, to go out your front door and not be obstructed in any way. But there are always limitations, and there are limitations that are set by geographical boundaries, territorial boundaries, political boundaries that you have to live with and you have to understand those. We’re not so free that we don’t have to listen to rules, and laws, and regulations. Those are important. But the spirit, the freedom of the spirit, that’s what I think of American Dream, that we are free here to do what we want to do, what we set out to do.</p> <p><strong>To what do you attribute the success you’ve had?</strong></p> <p>Martha Stewart: When I was growing up my mom was home. She wanted to go to work, but she waited. She was educated as a teacher. The minute my youngest sister went to school full-time, from first grade, mom went back to work. But she balanced her life. She chose teaching, which enabled her to leave at the same time we left, and come home pretty much the same time we came home. She knew how to balance.</p> <p>When I got married and had a child and went to work, my day was all day, all night. You lose your sense of balance. That was in the late ’60s, ’70s, women went to work, they went crazy. They thought the workplace was much more exciting than the home. They thought the family could wait. And you know what? The family can’t wait. And women have now found that out. It all has to do with women, or the homemaker leaving the home and realizing that where they’ve gone is not as fabulous, or as rewarding, or as self-fulfilling as the balance between the workplace and the home place.</p> <p>So, I think that that’s what’s happened, all of a sudden. Women are wanting to spend more time at home, men are wanting to spend more time at home. They want to garden, they want to do all that stuff. And they want to see their kids grow up, and that’s what’s happened. That’s why this intense interest in how to polish a floor, how to wash a car. You know, all that stuff is coming back. And you know who likes it the best? The kids. They’re so happy. Many viewers of my TV program are three-year-olds, because they’re learning, learning, learning.</p> <p><strong>That’s wonderful. Thank you for speaking with us.</strong></p> </div>  </aside>  <div class="read-more__toggle collapsed" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#full-interview"><a href="#" class="sans-4 btn">Read full interview</a></div> </article> </section> </div> <div class="tab-pane" id="gallery" role="tabpanel"> <section class="isotope-wrapper">  <header class="toolbar toolbar--gallery bg-white clearfix"> <div class="col-md-6"> <div class="serif-4">Martha Stewart Gallery</div> </div> <div class="col-md-6 text-md-right isotope-toolbar"> <ul class="list-unstyled list-inline m-b-0 text-brand-primary sans-4"> <li class="list-inline-item" data-filter=".photo"><i class="icon-icon_camera"></i>45 photos</li> </ul> </div> </header> <div class="isotope-gallery isotope-box single-achiever__gallery clearfix"> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.62763157894737" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/today-martha-stewart-update-140202-18.today-ss-slide-desktop.jpg" data-image-caption="Martha Stewart is a regular contributor of cooking, crafts, and gardening segments on NBC's "Today" show." data-image-copyright="today-martha-stewart-update-140202-18-today-ss-slide-desktop" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/today-martha-stewart-update-140202-18.today-ss-slide-desktop-380x239.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/today-martha-stewart-update-140202-18.today-ss-slide-desktop-760x477.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.2044374009509" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/stewart-was-a-student-at-barnard-college-for-most-of-her-modeling-career.jpg" data-image-caption="1950s: Martha Stewart was a student at Barnard College for most of her modeling career. 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She went on to appear in television commercials and in magazines. During her college years at Barnard, she supplemented her scholarship money through "modeling jobs at $50/hour — which was a lot of money at that time."" data-image-copyright="she-initially-wanted-to-study-chemistry-but-ended-up-switching-to-art-and-architectural-history" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/she-initially-wanted-to-study-chemistry-but-ended-up-switching-to-art-and-architectural-history-295x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/she-initially-wanted-to-study-chemistry-but-ended-up-switching-to-art-and-architectural-history-590x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.25" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/msl-cover-holiday-1992_vert.jpg" data-image-caption="In 1990, Stewart signed with Time Publishing Ventures to develop a new magazine, "Martha Stewart Living," for which Stewart would serve as editor-in-chief. The first issue was released in late 1990." data-image-copyright="msl-cover-holiday-1992_vert" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/msl-cover-holiday-1992_vert-304x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/msl-cover-holiday-1992_vert-608x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.25" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/msl-cover-holiday-1990_vert.jpg" data-image-caption="In 1990, Stewart signed with Time Publishing Ventures to develop a new magazine, "Martha Stewart Living," for which Stewart would serve as editor-in-chief. The first issue was released in late 1990." data-image-copyright="msl-cover-holiday-1990_vert" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/msl-cover-holiday-1990_vert-304x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/msl-cover-holiday-1990_vert-608x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.66578947368421" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/MSLB6093_0081a2.jpg" data-image-caption="February 1, 2011: Jessica Pigza, Martha Stewart, and Maura 2011: Jessica Pigza, Martha Stewart, and Maura Madden in production of "The Martha Stewart Show" in New York." data-image-copyright="Jessica Pigza Martha Stewart Maura Madden" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/MSLB6093_0081a2-380x253.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/MSLB6093_0081a2-760x506.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.3333333333333" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/most-of-these-photos-were-taken-in-the-early-1960s.jpg" data-image-caption="At 15, Stewart was featured in a television commercial for Unilever. She went on to appear in television commercials and in magazines, including one of Tareyton's "Smokers would rather fight than switch!" cigarette advertisements. During her college years, she supplemented her scholarship money through "modeling jobs at $50/hour — which was a lot of money at that time."" data-image-copyright="most-of-these-photos-were-taken-in-the-early-1960s" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/most-of-these-photos-were-taken-in-the-early-1960s-285x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/most-of-these-photos-were-taken-in-the-early-1960s-570x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.6204690831557" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/martha-vintage-photos5_horiz.jpg" data-image-caption="Martha met Andrew Stewart while she was still at Barnard College. He finished his law degree at Yale Law School and they were married in 1961." data-image-copyright="martha-vintage-photos5_horiz" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/martha-vintage-photos5_horiz-235x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/martha-vintage-photos5_horiz-469x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.4990138067061" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-thinks-very-important-walk-down-aisle-dress.jpg" data-image-caption="Martha with her daughter, Alexis. (Image Source: Getty/Todd Plitt)" data-image-copyright="Martha with daughter Alexis. (Image Source: Getty / Todd Plitt)" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-thinks-very-important-walk-down-aisle-dress-253x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-thinks-very-important-walk-down-aisle-dress-507x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.66710526315789" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/martha-stewart-with-dessert-1037-d112925.jpg" data-image-caption="2016: Martha filming her television series, "Martha Bakes." Throughout the series Martha Stewart shares the best tips and techniques, giving viewers the confidence to create delectable baked goods -- from scratch -- in their own kitchens." data-image-copyright="martha-stewart-with-dessert-1037-d112925" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/martha-stewart-with-dessert-1037-d112925-380x253.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/martha-stewart-with-dessert-1037-d112925-760x507.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.3427561837456" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/martha-stewart-weddings-fall-2016-cover-cropped-w0916-0816_horiz_0.jpg" data-image-caption="Martha Stewart Weddings" data-image-copyright="martha-stewart-weddings-fall-2016-cover-cropped-w0916-0816_horiz_0" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/martha-stewart-weddings-fall-2016-cover-cropped-w0916-0816_horiz_0-283x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/martha-stewart-weddings-fall-2016-cover-cropped-w0916-0816_horiz_0-566x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.85526315789474" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/martha-stewart-trial_lea.jpg" data-image-caption="March 5, 2013: Martha Stewart arrives to court in New York. Macy's Inc. was suing the media and merchandising company Stewart founded for breaching an exclusive contract when she signed a deal with J.C. Penney in December 2011 to open shops at most of its stores in the spring of 2013. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)" data-image-copyright="Martha Stewart" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/martha-stewart-trial_lea-380x325.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/martha-stewart-trial_lea-760x650.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.2709030100334" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/martha-stewart-subway-man-repeller.jpg" data-image-caption="At 15, Stewart was featured in a television commercial for Unilever. She went on to appear in television commercials and in magazines, including one of Tareyton's "Smokers would rather fight than switch!" cigarette advertisements. During her college years, she supplemented her scholarship money through "modeling jobs at $50/hour — which was a lot of money at that time."" data-image-copyright="martha-stewart-subway-man-repeller" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/martha-stewart-subway-man-repeller-299x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/martha-stewart-subway-man-repeller-598x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.5899581589958" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/martha-stewarts-daughter-alexis-will-have-baby-via-surrogate.jpg" data-image-caption="April 28, 2006: Martha Stewart and her daughter, Alexis Gilbert Stewart, at the 33rd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards." data-image-copyright="33rd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/martha-stewarts-daughter-alexis-will-have-baby-via-surrogate-239x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/martha-stewarts-daughter-alexis-will-have-baby-via-surrogate-478x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.84210526315789" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-Stewart-presented-Twitter-co-founder-Biz-Stone-with-the-Webby-Breakout-of-the-Year-Award-at-the-13th-Annual-Webby-Awards.jpg" data-image-caption="2009: Martha Stewart presented Twitter co-founder Biz Stone with the Webby Breakout of the Year Award at the 13th Annual Webby Awards." data-image-copyright="martha-stewart-presented-twitter-co-founder-biz-stone-with-the-webby-breakout-of-the-year-award-at-the-13th-annual-webby-awards" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-Stewart-presented-Twitter-co-founder-Biz-Stone-with-the-Webby-Breakout-of-the-Year-Award-at-the-13th-Annual-Webby-Awards-380x320.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-Stewart-presented-Twitter-co-founder-Biz-Stone-with-the-Webby-Breakout-of-the-Year-Award-at-the-13th-Annual-Webby-Awards-760x640.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.69473684210526" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-Stewart-Macys-Promo.jpg" data-image-caption="2015: Martha Stewart with Thomas Joseph, Food Director, at Martha Stewart Living, hosting a special cooking demonstration as she shares recipes from her latest book "Appetizers."" data-image-copyright="martha-stewart-macys-promo" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-Stewart-Macys-Promo-380x264.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-Stewart-Macys-Promo-760x528.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.1782945736434" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-Stewart-living-2009.jpg" data-image-caption="2009 issue of Martha Stewart "Living" magazine. In 1990, Stewart signed with Time Publishing Ventures to develop a new magazine, "Martha Stewart Living," for which Stewart would serve as editor-in-chief." data-image-copyright="martha-stewart-living-2009" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-Stewart-living-2009-322x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-Stewart-living-2009-645x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.85131578947368" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/martha-stewart-images.jpg" data-image-caption="2016: Martha Stewart" data-image-copyright="martha-stewart-images" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/martha-stewart-images-380x324.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/martha-stewart-images-760x647.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-Stewart-Grandchildren-Playroom-Nursery.jpg" data-image-caption="2012: Martha Stewart in her grandchildren's playroom. Jude and Truman Stewart are living the high life in a serene New York City triplex that their mom, Alexis Stewart, decorated." data-image-copyright="martha-stewart-grandchildren-playroom-nursery" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-Stewart-Grandchildren-Playroom-Nursery-380x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-Stewart-Grandchildren-Playroom-Nursery-760x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.4990138067061" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-Stewart-Feet-1677501.jpg" data-image-caption="Martha Stewart at the TIME 100 Gala in New York City." data-image-copyright="Arrivals at the TIME 100 Gala" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-Stewart-Feet-1677501-254x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-Stewart-Feet-1677501-507x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.81973684210526" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-Stewart-Entertaining1.jpg" data-image-caption="On December 13, 1982, Martha's first book, "Entertaining," was released. Martha was running a thriving catering company in Connecticut, and decided that she wanted to preserve all the memories and recipes she created for the events she catered, so she wrote a book to share them with people who wanted ideas for their own parties." data-image-copyright="martha-stewart-entertaining1" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-Stewart-Entertaining1-380x312.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-Stewart-Entertaining1-760x623.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.5966386554622" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-Stewart-Acquisition.jpg" data-image-caption="In this March 5, 2013 file photo, Martha Stewart arrives to court in New York. Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. signed a deal to be acquired by Sequential Brands Group Inc. in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about $353 million, according to a statement released June 22, 2015. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)" data-image-copyright="Martha Stewart" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-Stewart-Acquisition-238x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha-Stewart-Acquisition-476x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.66710526315789" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/martha-stewart-2014-by-fadil-berisha.jpg" data-image-caption="2016: Martha Stewart" data-image-copyright="2016: Martha Stewart" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/martha-stewart-2014-by-fadil-berisha-380x254.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/martha-stewart-2014-by-fadil-berisha-760x507.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.66578947368421" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha_Stewart_on_the_set_of_Macys_Backstage_commercial_240dpi_HiRes.jpg" data-image-caption="2010: Martha Stewart on the set of a Macy's commercial. In September 2007, she launched an upscale line of homewares for Macy's, which was the largest brand launch in Macy's history. Appearing in commercials for the line, Stewart stated she has designed more than 2,000 items exclusively for Macy's. The line includes bedding, bath, cookware and dinnerware." data-image-copyright="martha_stewart_on_the_set_of_macys_backstage_commercial_240dpi_hires" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha_Stewart_on_the_set_of_Macys_Backstage_commercial_240dpi_HiRes-380x253.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha_Stewart_on_the_set_of_Macys_Backstage_commercial_240dpi_HiRes-760x506.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.4990138067061" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha_Stewart_at_Met_Opera.jpg" data-image-caption="2008: Martha Stewart at the Metropolitan Opera opening." data-image-copyright="2008: Martha Stewart at the Metropolitan Opera opening." data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha_Stewart_at_Met_Opera-253x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha_Stewart_at_Met_Opera-507x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.55" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha_Pic.jpg" data-image-caption="2014: Stewart is an avid animal lover. Her pets include champion show Chow Chow dogs, French bulldogs, Himalayan cats, and Friesian horses." data-image-copyright="martha_pic" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha_Pic-380x209.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Martha_Pic-760x418.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.5" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/landscape-1438355692-martha-stewart-young-1970s-1.jpg" data-image-caption="1970s: Martha Stewart" data-image-copyright="1970s: Martha Stewart" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/landscape-1438355692-martha-stewart-young-1970s-1-380x190.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/landscape-1438355692-martha-stewart-young-1970s-1-760x380.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.4931237721022" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/in-addition-to-her-beauty-stewart-would-prove-herself-to-be-brilliant.jpg" data-image-caption="At 15, Stewart was featured in a television commercial for Unilever. She went on to appear in television commercials and in magazines. During her college years, she supplemented her scholarship money through "modeling jobs at $50/hour — which was a lot of money at that time."" data-image-copyright="in-addition-to-her-beauty-stewart-would-prove-herself-to-be-brilliant" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/in-addition-to-her-beauty-stewart-would-prove-herself-to-be-brilliant-255x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/in-addition-to-her-beauty-stewart-would-prove-herself-to-be-brilliant-509x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.2751677852349" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/image.jpg" data-image-caption="During Martha Stewart's college years at Barnard, she supplemented her scholarship money through "modeling jobs at $50/hour — which was a lot of money at that time."" data-image-copyright="image" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/image-298x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/image-596x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.78947368421053" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/here-she-poses-in-a-bathing-suit-and-shows-off-her-fantastic-figure.jpg" data-image-caption="At 15, Stewart was featured in a television commercial for Unilever. She went on to appear in television commercials and in magazines. During her college years, she supplemented her scholarship money through "modeling jobs at $50/hour — which was a lot of money at that time."" data-image-copyright="here-she-poses-in-a-bathing-suit-and-shows-off-her-fantastic-figure" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/here-she-poses-in-a-bathing-suit-and-shows-off-her-fantastic-figure-380x300.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/here-she-poses-in-a-bathing-suit-and-shows-off-her-fantastic-figure-760x600.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.6888888888889" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/GettyImages-584842440.jpg" data-image-caption="1961: Martha Kostyra (aka Martha Stewart) of Barnard College in New York City, one of Glamour's ten best-dressed college girls, wearing a wool coat with braid matching buttons by Finger, Rabiner & Jontow, scarf by Liberty, alligator bag by Lucille, gloves by Wear Right, and pumps by Deb. (Photo by Frank Horvat/Condé Nast via Getty Images)" data-image-copyright="Glamour 1961" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/GettyImages-584842440-225x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/GettyImages-584842440-450x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.4179104477612" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/de7e9ef4_GettyImages-487498238.xxxlarge_2x.jpg" data-image-caption="September 9, 2015: Martha Stewart attends the Spring 2016 Jessica Simpson Collection presentation for New York Fashion Week at Tavern on the Green in New York City." data-image-copyright="de7e9ef4_gettyimages-487498238-xxxlarge_2x" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/de7e9ef4_GettyImages-487498238.xxxlarge_2x-268x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/de7e9ef4_GettyImages-487498238.xxxlarge_2x-536x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.62105263157895" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/d88b80d2-f55e-42da-a485-0c60fdf94b83.jpg" data-image-caption="June 14, 2016: Sequential Brands Group, Inc. and Marley Spoon, Inc. announced today the launch of Martha & Marley Spoon, a meal-kit delivery service featuring Martha Stewart's award-winning recipes and smart cooking techniques. Delivered and designed with simple weeknight cooking in mind, Martha & Marley Spoon provides delicious recipes and pre-portioned seasonal ingredients that reflect Martha's love for nutritious and creative home cooking. In 2015, Sequential Brands Group acquired Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. for about $300 million." data-image-copyright="Martha & Marley Spoon" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/d88b80d2-f55e-42da-a485-0c60fdf94b83-380x236.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/d88b80d2-f55e-42da-a485-0c60fdf94b83-760x472.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.66578947368421" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/CS1010_0036a.jpg" data-image-caption="Evan Lobel and Martha Stewart are seen in this photo from the production of "Martha's Cooking School" in New York on May 16, 2012. The new series, which airs on PBS, “gives home cooks a culinary master class with Martha herself,” according to PBS.com. “She will demonstrate classic cooking techniques and basics. Using her signature step-by-step, how-to teaching process, Martha illustrates cooking fundamentals that everyone should know: from roasting and poaching to braising and blanching.” (Rob Tannenbaum/MSLO)" data-image-copyright="Martha Stewart Evan Lobel" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/CS1010_0036a-380x253.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/CS1010_0036a-760x506.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.4700193423598" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/AP100105030132.jpg" data-image-caption="2010: Martha Stewart appears on NBC's "Today Show." (Peter Kramer/NBC NewsWire)" data-image-copyright="TODAY" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/AP100105030132-259x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/AP100105030132-517x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.3058419243986" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/AP10050401311.jpg" data-image-caption="2010: Martha Stewart attends the TIME 100 Most Influential People in the World Gala, held at the Time Warner Center in New York City. (AP Photo/Jennifer Graylock)" data-image-copyright="Martha Stewart" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/AP10050401311-291x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/AP10050401311-582x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.66710526315789" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/ad9a4706.jpg" data-image-caption="December 6, 2011: Martha Stewart lends her support to help raise funds for individuals with autism and their families. Autism Speaks co-founders Suzanne and Bob Wright, and New York Center for Autism (NYCA) co-founders Laura and Harry Slatkin, honored iconic fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger for his commitment to increasing awareness and support of the autism community at A Funny Affair for Autism –a star-studded evening of fashion and comedy that helped raise over 1.3 million dollars for individuals with autism and their families." data-image-copyright="ad9a4706" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/ad9a4706-380x253.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/ad9a4706-760x507.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.66315789473684" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/109991894.jpg" data-image-caption="2006: Martha Stewart during the 33rd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards - Red Carpet at Kodak Theater in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)" data-image-copyright="33rd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards - Red Carpet" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/109991894-380x252.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/109991894-760x504.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/2012-50-04-2-ma109247_sq.jpg" data-image-caption="2012: Martha Stewart" data-image-copyright="2012: Martha Stewart" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/2012-50-04-2-ma109247_sq-380x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/2012-50-04-2-ma109247_sq-760x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.69605263157895" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wp-marthastewartw_goldenplate.jpg" data-image-caption="Martha Stewart, American Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award, "Salute to Excellence"" data-image-copyright="wp-marthastewartw_goldenplate" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wp-marthastewartw_goldenplate-380x265.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wp-marthastewartw_goldenplate-760x529.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.68684210526316" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wp-Stewart-Martha-1995-Summit-1.jpg" data-image-caption="Martha Stewart and Raymond W. Smith at the 1995 Banquet of the Golden Plate ceremonies in Williamsburg, Virginia." data-image-copyright="wp-stewart-martha-1995-summit" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wp-Stewart-Martha-1995-Summit-1-380x261.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wp-Stewart-Martha-1995-Summit-1-760x522.jpg"></div>  </figure>    </div> </section> </div> </div> <div class="container"> <footer class="editorial-article__footer col-md-8 col-md-offset-4"> <div class="editorial-article__next-link sans-3"> <a href="#"><strong>What's next:</strong> <span class="editorial-article__next-link-title">profile</span></a> </div> <ul class="social list-unstyled list-inline ssk-group m-b-0"> <li class="list-inline-item"><a href="" class="ssk ssk-facebook" data-gtm-category="social" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Shared Achiever on Facebook"><i class="icon-icon_facebook-circle"></i></a></li> <li class="list-inline-item"><a href="" class="ssk ssk-twitter" data-gtm-category="social" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Shared Achiever on Twitter"><i class="icon-icon_twitter-circle"></i></a></li>  <li class="list-inline-item"><a href="" class="ssk ssk-email" data-gtm-category="social" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Shared Achiever via Email"><i class="icon-icon_email-circle"></i></a></li> </ul> <time class="editorial-article__last-updated sans-6">This page last revised on January 4, 2017</time> <div class="sans-4"><a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/how-to-cite" target="_blank">How to cite this page</a></div> </footer> </div> <div class="container interview-related-achievers"> <hr class="m-t-3 m-b-3"/> <footer class="clearfix small-blocks text-xs-center"> <h3 class="m-b-3 serif-3">If you are inspired by this achiever’s story, you might also enjoy:</h3> <div class="centered-blocks"> <div class="isotope-achiever public-service difficulty-with-school ambitious curious " data-year-inducted="2001" data-achiever-name="Brown"> <div class="achiever-block view-grid"> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/carter-j-brown/"> <figure class="ratio-container ratio-container--square bg-black"> <div class="lazyload box achiever-block__image" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/bro1-001-190x190.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/03/bro1-001-380x380.jpg"></div> <div class="achiever-block__overlay"></div> <figcaption class="text-xs-center achiever-block__text"> <div class="display--table"> <div class="display--table-cell"> <div class="achiever-block__text--center"> <div class="achiever-block__name text-brand-primary">J. 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Arnold, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/robert-d-ballard-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Robert D. Ballard, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/sir-roger-bannister-2/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sir Roger Bannister</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/john-banville/"><span class="achiever-list-name">John Banville</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/ehud-barak/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ehud Barak</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/lee-r-berger-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Lee R. Berger, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/sir-timothy-berners-lee/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sir Tim Berners-Lee</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/yogi-berra/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Yogi Berra</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/jeffrey-p-bezos/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Jeffrey P. Bezos</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/benazir-bhutto/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Benazir Bhutto</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/simone-biles/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Simone Biles</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/keith-l-black/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Keith L. Black, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/elizabeth-blackburn/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/david-boies-2/"><span class="achiever-list-name">David Boies</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/norman-e-borlaug/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Norman E. Borlaug, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/benjamin-c-bradlee/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Benjamin C. Bradlee</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/sergey-brin/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sergey Brin</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/carter-j-brown/"><span class="achiever-list-name">J. Carter Brown</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/linda-buck/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Linda B. Buck, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/carol-burnett/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Carol Burnett</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/george-h-w-bush/"><span class="achiever-list-name">George H. W. Bush</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/susan-butcher/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Susan Butcher</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/sir-michael-caine/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sir Michael Caine</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/james-cameron/"><span class="achiever-list-name">James Cameron</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/benjamin-s-carson/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Benjamin S. Carson, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/jimmy-carter/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Jimmy Carter</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/johnny-cash/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Johnny Cash</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/william-j-clinton/"><span class="achiever-list-name">William J. Clinton</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/francis-s-collins/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/denton-a-cooley/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Denton A. Cooley, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/francis-ford-coppola/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Francis Ford Coppola</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/ray-dalio/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ray Dalio</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/olivia-de-havilland/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Dame Olivia de Havilland</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/michael-e-debakey-m-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Michael E. DeBakey, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/michael-dell/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Michael S. Dell</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/ron-dennis/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ron Dennis</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/joan-didion/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Joan Didion</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/david-herbert-donald-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">David Herbert Donald, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/david-doubilet/"><span class="achiever-list-name">David Doubilet</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/jennifer-a-doudna-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Jennifer A. Doudna, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/rita-dove/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Rita Dove</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/sylvia-earle/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sylvia Earle, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/elbaradei/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Mohamed ElBaradei</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/gertrude-elion/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Gertrude B. Elion, M.Sc.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/larry-j-ellison/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Larry J. Ellison</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/nora-ephron/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Nora Ephron</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/julius-erving/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Julius Erving</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/tony-fadell/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Tony Fadell</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/paul-farmer/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Paul Farmer, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/suzanne-farrell/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Suzanne Farrell</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/anthony-s-fauci-m-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/sally-field/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sally Field</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/lord-norman-foster/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Lord Norman Foster</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/aretha-franklin/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Aretha Franklin</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/milton-friedman-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Milton Friedman, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/carlos-fuentes/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Carlos Fuentes</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/athol-fugard/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Athol Fugard</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/peter-gabriel/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Peter Gabriel</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/ernest-j-gaines/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ernest J. Gaines</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/william-h-gates-iii/"><span class="achiever-list-name">William H. Gates III</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/leymah-gbowee/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Leymah Gbowee</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/frank-gehry/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Frank O. Gehry</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/murray-gell-mann-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Murray Gell-Mann, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/carlos-ghosn/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Carlos Ghosn</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/vince-gill/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Vince Gill</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/ruth-bader-ginsburg/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ruth Bader Ginsburg</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/louise-gluck/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Louise Glück</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/whoopi-goldberg/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Whoopi Goldberg</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/jane-goodall/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Dame Jane Goodall</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/doris-kearns-goodwin/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Doris Kearns Goodwin, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/mikhail-s-gorbachev/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Mikhail S. Gorbachev</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/nadine-gordimer/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Nadine Gordimer</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/stephen-jay-gould/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Stephen Jay Gould, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/carol-greider-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Carol W. Greider, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/john-grisham/"><span class="achiever-list-name">John Grisham</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/sir-john-gurdon/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sir John Gurdon</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/dorothy-hamill/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Dorothy Hamill</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/demis-hassabis-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Demis Hassabis, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/lauryn-hill/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Lauryn Hill</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/sir-edmund-hillary/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sir Edmund Hillary</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/reid-hoffman/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Reid Hoffman</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/khaled-hosseini/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Khaled Hosseini, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/ron-howard/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ron Howard</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/john-hume/"><span class="achiever-list-name">John Hume</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/louis-ignarro-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Louis Ignarro, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/daniel-inouye/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Daniel K. Inouye</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/jeremy-irons/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Jeremy Irons</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/john-irving/"><span class="achiever-list-name">John Irving</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/kazuo-ishiguro/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sir Kazuo Ishiguro</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/sir-peter-jackson/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sir Peter Jackson</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/donald-c-johanson/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Donald C. Johanson, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/frank-m-johnson/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Frank M. Johnson, Jr.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/philip-johnson/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Philip C. Johnson</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/chuck-jones/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Chuck Jones</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/james-earl-jones/"><span class="achiever-list-name">James Earl Jones</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/quincy-jones/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Quincy Jones</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/beverly-joubert/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Beverly Joubert</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/dereck-joubert/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Dereck Joubert</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/paul-kagame/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Paul Kagame</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/thomas-keller-2/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Thomas Keller</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/anthony-m-kennedy/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Anthony M. Kennedy</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/carole-king/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Carole King</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/b-b-king/"><span class="achiever-list-name">B.B. King</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/coretta-scott-king/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Coretta Scott King</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/henry-kissinger-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Henry A. Kissinger, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/willem-j-kolff/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Willem J. Kolff, M.D., Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/wendy-kopp/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Wendy Kopp</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/henry-r-kravis/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Henry R. Kravis</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/nicholas-d-kristof/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Nicholas D. Kristof</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/mike-krzyzewski/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Mike Krzyzewski</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/ray-kurzwell/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ray Kurzweil</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/eric-lander-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Eric S. Lander, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/robert-s-langer-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Robert S. Langer, Sc.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/richard-leakey/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Richard E. Leakey</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/leon-lederman-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Leon Lederman, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/robert-lefkowitz-m-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Robert J. Lefkowitz, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/congressman-john-r-lewis/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Congressman John R. Lewis</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/maya-lin/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Maya Lin</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/george-lucas/"><span class="achiever-list-name">George Lucas</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/paul-b-maccready-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Paul B. MacCready, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/norman-mailer/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Norman Mailer</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/peyton-manning/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Peyton Manning</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/wynton-marsalis/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Wynton Marsalis</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/john-c-mather-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">John C. Mather, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/johnny-mathis/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Johnny Mathis</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/ernst-mayr-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ernst Mayr, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/willie-mays/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Willie Mays</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/frank-mccourt/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Frank McCourt</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/david-mccullough/"><span class="achiever-list-name">David McCullough</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/audra-mcdonald/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Audra McDonald</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235206/https://achievement.org/achiever/admiral-william-h-mcraven/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Admiral William H. 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