

Fly Girls
How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History
Author: Keith O'Brien
Narrator: Erin Bennett
Unabridged: 12 hr 13 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Published: 08/07/2018
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, History, Women
Synopsis
O'Brien weaves together the stories of five remarkable women: Florence Klingensmith, a high school dropout who worked for a dry cleaner in Fargo, North Dakota; Ruth Elder, an Alabama divorcee; Amelia Earhart, the most famous, but not necessarily the most skilled; Ruth Nichols, who chafed at the constraints of her blue blood family's expectations; and Louise Thaden, the mother of two young kids who got her start selling coal in Wichita. Together, they fought for the chance to race against the men—and in 1936 one of them would triumph in the toughest race of all.