Harriet Quimby book

From Norm,

   I have completed the final draft of a book on the life of Harriet Quimby. No Reason to Be Afraid: The indominable spirit of Harriet Quimby is narrative nonfiction relating the life story of a captivating “New Woman” with a turn-of-the-last-century spirit of independence and freedom. Harriet Quimby achieved many firsts during her life–one of the first American women with a driver’s license and her own runabout; a popular international journalist and the first to use a camera on her many trips; a silent-film actress who wrote screenplays for D.W. Griffith; the nation’s first woman to earn a pilot’s license; the first woman to fly solo over Mexico and who gained international celebrity as the first to fly across the English Channel; and a pilot paid a handsome $100,000 in 1912 to be the featured flier in the Boston Air Show.

   Raised on an isolated Michigan farmstead, she matured into a vibrant and audacious young woman who gained special status, first in the artistic community of turn-of-the-century San Francisco, and then in New York as a popular writer and adventurous pilot. The tragedy of her all-too-brief life story encompasses much of historical interest and mirrors one of the most interesting eras of American history.

   I would share a .pdf of this book with anyone interested in being a reader and providing thoughts for me on the narrative. Let me know if you are interested.