On a related subject, my military experience is limited, so if I made errors related to uniforms, unit organization, daily activities, and so on, please accept my apologies.
Reading List
There is no requirement in the field of historical fiction to cite one’s references, but I thought I might list some of the works I drew on for the edification of those interested in learning more about the historical context of my characters’ lives.
Coming Out Under Fire by Allan Bérubé
An Army in Skirts: The World War II Letters of Frances Debra by Frances Debra Brown
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America by Lillian Faderman
A Secret Place in my Heart: A Diary of a World War II Wac by Dottie Gill
One Woman’s War: Letters Home From The Women’s Army Corp 1944-1946 by Anne Bosanko Green
Stateside Soldier: Life in the Women’s Army Corps, 1944-1945 by Aileen Kilgore Henderson
Winning My Wings: A Woman Airforce Service Pilot in World War II by Marion Stegeman Hodgson
We’re in this War, Too: World War II Letters from American Women in Uniform by Judy Barrett Litoff & David C. Smith
Creating G. I. Jane by Leisa Meyer
Not All Soldiers Wore Pants: A Witty World War II Wac Tells All by Rose Rosenthal
The Women’s Army Corps (US Army Green Book) by Mattie Treadwell
We Were WASPS by Winifred Wood
Thanks for picking up a copy of In the Company of Women. Happy reading!
Kate Christie
Western Washington
5/1/2015
About the Author
Kate Christie was born and raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and currently makes her home in Western Washington with her wife, three daughters, and the family dog. Recently she moved her writing office from the spare bedroom—requisitioned by her twin toddlers—into a backyard shed that she built from a kit with help from her father and father-in-law. She now enjoys the nightly stroll from the back deck to her new office, accompanied variously by the songs of birds settling in for the night, the flutter of bats taking wing, and the pitter-pat of rain dripping from hundred-foot tall fir and cedar trees.
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