1. Martha Stewart
*business person*

2. All about:
Martha Helen Stewart
• Born: August 3, 1941
• Home interests: cooking, sewing, gardening
• Extracurricular activities: school newspaper and
art club

3. College Life
• Bernard College [New York City]
• Straight A’s – scholarship
Majors:
• Chemistry
• Art and European history
• Architectural history

4. Family
first husband: Andrew Stewart
• Wedding date: July 1, 1961
• Yale Law School, Bernard College
• Double history major and architectural history
• Daughter – Alexis (1965)

5. Martha Stewart
Previous jobs
• Modeling career-
▫ Tv
▫ Magazines
▫ Advertisments

6. Business Skills
• Stockbroker
• Martha Stewart Living Show
• Catering business with friend [Norma Collier]
• Manager of Market Basket (gourmet food store)
• Andrew was president of New York City
Publisher.
 Book: english version of “The Secret Book of Gnomes
series” by Wil Huygen andRien Poortvliet

7. Martha Stewart
• Published a cookbook
▫ Along with 7 other books:
 Quick Cook (1983)
 Hors D’oeuvres(1984)
 Pies and Tarts (1985)
 Weddings (1987)
 The Wedding Planner (1988)
 Quick Cook Menus (1988)
 Christmas (1989)

8. MARTHA STEWART
*a day in the life*
• Wrote newspapers and magazines
• Made TV appearances – The Oprah Winfrey
Show and Larry King Live
• Divorce in 1989
• Arrested! For fraud and obstruction of justice

9. • Never remarried
• Dated Anthony Hopkins [Hannibal]
• Dated Charles Simonyi – fifteen years
▫ Married Lisa Persdotter

10. Martha’s comeback
• Released from prison March 2005
• Apprentice
• Writing books
• Today show- cooking, gardening, crafts
• Talk show nominated in six categories for the
33rd Daytime Emmy Awards in 2006 including
Best Host and Best Show