She was above the medium height, slender, graceful in her movements, and perfectly self-possessed in her manner. "I was seated one afternoon in my private office, pondering deeply over some matters, and arranging various plans, when a lady was shown in.
In Allan Pinkerton's book The Expressman and the Detective, Pinkerton describes Kate Warne this way: So we can get a sense of what she looked like after all! However, the photo shown here is a portrait painted of Kate Warne in 1866, gifted to the Chicago History Museum in 1924. While there is a photo purporting to be Kate Warne undercover as a Civil War soldier, the person in the photo has been identified as John C. She lived in a time before photography was commonplace, and people might sit for one photograph their entire life. The Kathleen McNulty Mauchly Antonelli StoryĪs I researched "The Detective's Assistant," I learned there are no known photographs of Kate Warne. The Federal Bureau of Investigation: Duquesne Spy Ring With Lynda Carter, Lindsay Wagner, Kristy Guevara-Flanagan Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines Top Secret Rosies: The Female “Computers” of WWIIĭirected by LeAnn Erickson, written by Cynthia Baughman Kathy Kleiman, Kate McMahon, Jon Palfreman
The Computers: The Remarkable Story of the ENIAC ProgrammersĮNIAC Programmers Project Un-American: The Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War IIīy Richard Cahan and Michael Williams (CityFiles Press, 2016) Pioneer Programmer: Jean Jennings Bartik and the Computer That Changed the Worldīy Jean Jennings Bartik (Truman State University Press, 2013)ĭouble Agent: The First Hero of World War II and How the FBI Outwitted and Destroyed a Nazi Spy Ringīy Edmund Lindop (Lerner Publishing, 2010) Superheroes! Capes, Cowls, and the Creation of Comic Book Cultureīy Laurence Maslon, based on the documentary film by Michael Kantor (Crown Archetype, 2013)īy Peter Coogan (MonkeyBrain Books, 2006) The Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroinesīy Mike Madrid (Exterminating Angel Press, 2009)ĭivas, Dames & Daredevils: Lost Heroines of Golden Age Comicsīy Mike Madrid (Exterminating Angel Press, 2013) Pretty In Ink: North American Women Cartoonists 1896-2013 Here are some of the books, films, and websites I used to help me understand the world of superheroes, World War II, the ENIAC Six, and life in the 1940s.īy Trina Robbins (Kitchen Sink Press, 1996) And even when I do finally sit down and start crafting the story, I keep on researching! I never feel like I can read enough on a topic to know it all, but I try my best to immerse myself in the world of that historical timeframe. Often it takes me a year or more to learn about a particular era before I feel ready to begin writing. I do not start writing a word of my books before doing as much research as I can to understand the era and the people I'm writing about.
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