Robin Desser, a vice president and senior editor at Knopf, Ms. Santiago's English-language publisher, said that because the author is mostly known for her memoirs, "this feels like the start of a different trajectory for her as a writer".
It also owes to the fact that her life followed the prescribed trajectory for women of her era: by the time the 20th century had run its course, Mrs. Green had long since disappeared into marriage, motherhood and contented anonymity.
She is chief operating officer at Facebook, a 40-something wonder woman who has engineered a rocket trajectory for her career: Harvard MBA, protégé of Larry Sommers at the World Bank, chief of staff at U.S. Treasury, V.P of global online sales at Google, and currently COO at Facebook.
"Marina Silva has entered the race attacking the political system itself, even if she has often been part of it, and that has led to a quick upward trajectory for her in the polls," said Francisco Fonseca, a political scientist at the Getulio Vargas Foundation university in Sao Paulo.
In short, the level of Pentagon spending under a Clinton presidency could be up for grabs, with early decisions on personnel and the level of her first budget setting the trajectory for what might follow.
Joyner, for instance, ran her fastest times in her late 20s and early 30s, an unusual trajectory for a sprinter, says Berthelot.
This trajectory, for Sandel, is paradigmatic.
It's an interesting trajectory for showbusiness.
There is no particular career trajectory for a gallery director.
Now we see the same trajectory for men – celebrating individuality".
