The first picture Susan Tate Ankeny saw of Hazel Ying Lee was of Lee “dressed all in flight garb, and her goggles, and she’s holding a cigarette, and she just looks badass.”
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.