Vienna Resident To Release Debut Book For Women's History Month

Bards Alley is pleased to host Patricia O’Connell Pearson’s reading of her debut biography for teens, Fly Girls: The Daring American Women Pilots Who Helped Win WWII (Simon & Schuster) this Saturday, March 10, at 10:30 a.m.

In Fly Girls, Pearson describes the U.S.’s desperation for skilled pilots at the height of World War II, and the subsequent employment of women aviators who formed an organization known as the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP). She details the obstacles they faced--including gender discrimination and low pay, compared to their male counterparts--in an accessible and engrossing read that Kirkus Reviews calls a “solid account of women’s contributions as aviators during World War II.”

Pearson, a long-time resident of Vienna, is a former Fairfax County Public Schools history teacher with a master’s in education from George Mason University. She has contributed to and edited history textbooks and published articles in magazines and newspapers including the Washington Post. Always enthusiastic about sharing stories of history, she earned her MFA in Writing for Young People from Lesley University and now writes both historical fiction and nonfiction. When she is not writing about history, she can often be found talking about history as a volunteer with the National Park Service in Washington, DC.

Bard's Alley, an independent bookstore at 110 Church Street NW, offers a wide variety of books, space for literary events and book clubs and a cafe. The store opened last year. For more information and events, visit www.bardsalley.com.

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