“I wanted and needed to tell my story.”
Susan Tate Ankeny’s ‘American Flygirl’ chronicles the life of the first Asian American woman pilot
When Susan Tate Ankeny was asked to write a book about Hazel Ying Lee (1912-44), it was because the publishing company was looking for someone to tell Lee’s story, and they liked Ankeny’s style of writing in her debut book—narrative fiction that reads like fiction.
Japanese American WWII prisoners find their voice in new book
“silence fell one evening
after talk of war
around fireside”