'Entertaining,' co-written with Elizabeth Hawes, was an instantaneous success, and made Martha Stewart into a one-woman industry.

In 1982 Martha Stewart published the first of many lavishly illustrated books. Stewart wrote articles for the New York Times and was an editor and columnist for the magazine House Beautiful. She also opened a retail store in Westport to sell specialty foods and supplies for entertaining. In ten years this business, which she ran out of the basement of her farmhouse, had become a $1 million enterprise. She developed a catering business first in partnership with a friend from her college days, and then on her own. When the stock market began to falter, Stewart and her … More family moved to Westport, Connecticut in 1972. In 1965, her daughter was born, and Stewart quit modeling, In 1967 she began a successful second career as a stockbroker. After graduation, she continued a successful modeling career, doing television commercials for Breck, Clairol, Lifebuoy soap and Tareyton cigarettes. While in school, Stewart worked as a model to pay her tuition.

She won a partial scholarship to Barnard College in New York City, and earned her bachelor's degree in history and architectural history. She was raised in Nutley, where she discovered her passion for cooking, gardening and housekeeping. Martha Stewart was born on August 3, 1941, in Jersey City, New Jersey.

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