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Podcast: Literary Aviatrix: The Power of Story - Women in Aviation
Episode: Aviatrix Book Club September 2021 - Sherri L. Smith FLYGIRL
Description: Send us Fan MailSherri L. Smith is an award-winning Children’s and Young Adult author who has published ten books. She also writes comics, including Bart Simpson Comics, James Cameron’s Avatar, and most recently, Wonder Woman. Her novel, Flygirl, is the Aviatrix Book Club discussion book for September 2021, which imagines a fair-skinned Black girl passing as white to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots in WWII. Her other works that highlight diversity in aviation include Who Were the Tuskegee Airmen? –part of the New York Times bestselling Who Was? book series, and The Blossom and the Fi...