RBG, a well-received documentary from CNN Films, Storyville Films, and Magnolia Pictures and directed by Julie Cohen and Betsy West, rolled out on May 4, 2018, to over 60 markets across the country and has been nominated for an Oscar. The film, which premiered in January 2018 at the Sundance Film Festival to rave reviews from Variety and The Hollywood Reporter and currently scores 100% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, prominently features Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik, authors of the New York Times bestselling book, Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, as well as the book itself.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg never asked for fame - she has only tried to make the world a little better and a little freer. But nearly a half-century into her career, something funny happened to the octogenarian: she won the internet. Across America, people who weren't even born when Ginsburg first made her name as a feminist pioneer are tattooing themselves with her face, setting her famously searing dissents to music, and making viral videos in tribute. But Notorious RBG, inspired by the Tumblr that amused the Justice herself, is more than just a love letter. It combines reported narrative, annotated dissents, rare archival photos and documents, and illustrations to tell the story of an unusual and transformative woman who transcends generational divides.
Nearly 300,000 copies in print across all formats, Notorious RBG was created by award-winning journalist Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik, the lawyer who began the Internet sensation. Carmon extensively interviewed Ginsburg for MSNBC in the course of working on the book, which also draws on intimate interviews with Ginsburg's family members, close friends, colleagues, and clerks. Notorious RBG also draws on some of the finest legal minds- including several former Ginsburg clerks-to vividly explain Ginsburg's revolutionary work fighting gender discrimination. It is an emotionally stirring, visually rich, and intellectually engaging look at the Justice and how she has changed the world. From Ginsburg's refusal to let the slammed doors of sexism stop her to her innovative legal work, from her before-its-time feminist marriage to her perch on the nation's highest court - with the fierce dissents to match - get to know RBG as never before.
Last November, HarperCollins Children's Books published a Young Reader's Edition of Notorious RBG, aimed at bringing Justice Ginsburg's story to the next generation.
Executive Editor Julia Cheiffetz says, "When we commissioned the book in 2015 we hoped it might strike a chord. To see the Justice's legacy celebrated in this way is nothing short of awesome." Since the book's publication, the nickname "Notorious RBG" has become iconic, appearing as both Jeopardy and NYT crossword puzzle clues, and affectionately used by President Barack Obama. Just last month on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," Colbert himself said, "They call her the Notorious RBG. She is a feminist icon and a favorite among the young people.please just hang in there for 3-7 more years." As Donald Trump's presidency makes Ginsburg's continued presence on the Supreme Court uniquely urgent and consequential, "Notorious RBG" is more relevant than ever. Ginsburg herself is a testament to how far we can come with a little chutzpah.