Daughter of the Air: The Brief Soaring Life of Cornelia Fort

263 pp. Black & white photographs. With her passion for flying and a lust for life, Cornelia Fort -- like Beryl Markham and Amelia Earhart -- came to personify the life of a female pilot. In this dramatic and riveting biography, Rob Simbeck interweaves Fort's own eloquent letters and diaries, historical documents, and the interviews of those who knew and flew with her to create a vivid portrait of a courageous woman.