Fly Girls
How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History
A New York Times #1 Bestseller
Everyone has heard of Amelia Earhart. But at the time that Earhart was flying, other women were flying with her. Each of them was brave. Each of them was bold, and some of them were arguably more talented in a cockpit than Earhart. In Fly Girls, Keith O’Brien tells this story—the story of Amelia Earhart and her friends, a radical band of female pilots who fought for the right to fly and race planes in the 1920s and ‘30s, and then beat the men in 1936, one of the most famous air races of them all. Publisher’s Weekly calls Fly Girls “fast-paced, meticulously researched history.” USA Today calls it “exhilarating” and “cinematic.” And the New York Times says that “O’Brien’s prose reverberates with fiery crashes, then stings with the tragedy of lives lost in the cockpit and sometimes, equally heartbreaking, on the ground.”
WHAT THEY'RE SAYING ABOUT
Fly Girls
It’s probably the most entertaining book I’ve looked at this year, a slice of Americana that gives us a sideways glimpse into what life was like in the 1920s and ’30s, when aviation was a popular spectator sport… ‘Fly Girls’ is feminist history of the best kind.
Barry Gewen
Editor at The New York Times Book Review