In Fly Girls, award-winning author and journalist Keith O'Brien tells the story of how a group of women banded together to shatter the original glass ceiling: the ingrained prejudices that conspired to keep them out of the sky. 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, a divorcee from Alabama; Amelia Earhart, the most famous, but not necessarily the most competent; Ruth Nichols, who chafed at the constraints imposed by her blue-blood family's expectations; and Louise Thaden, a mother of two young children who started selling coal in Wichita. Together they fought for the chance to race against men, and in 1936 one of them would triumph in the toughest race of all.
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