Editing Tina Fey (section)

== Career Achievement ==

Fey's subsequent work has included films, books, and the creation of "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt," demonstrating continued creative productivity that her early success has not diminished. Her memoir "Bossypants," which addressed her career and personal life with the wit that characterized her scripts, became a bestseller that reached audiences beyond her television viewership. The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, awarded in 2010, recognized cumulative achievement that continued developing after the honor.<ref name="fey"/>

Her influence on women in comedy, though she has sometimes resisted being defined primarily through gender, has been substantial. Her success as writer, performer, and showrunner demonstrated possibilities that previous generations of women in comedy had not achieved at comparable scale. This example, regardless of how Fey herself characterizes it, has affected how the industry understands women's potential in roles historically dominated by men.<ref name="lane"/>