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Kate first discovered the story of the radium girls when she directed the playThese Shining Lives by Melanie Marnich, which dramatizes the experiences of the Ottawa dial-painters. While conducting research for the play, she realized there was no book that focused on the women and told their story in their own words. Feeling passionately that the women deserved such a book, she decided to write it. Kate’s research took her all over America – to Newark and Orange, New Jersey; to New York and Washington, DC; and to Chicago and Ottawa, Illinois. She walked in the women’s footsteps and met their families; visited their homes and graves; stood in the lobby of Grossman’s office and at the sites of the dial-painting studios, and remembered the radium girls. She hopes, through her book, that you will do the same. Kate lives near Cambridge, England.
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