About Sarah Rickman
In 1999, Nancy Batson Crews challenged Sarah to write the story of Nancy Love and the original WAFS (Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron)—the first 28 women to fly for the Army in World War II.
To help Sarah get started, Nancy invited all surviving WAFS (there were nine at the time) to a reunion in her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama in June 1999. That week changed Sarah’s life dramatically, setting her on a writing path from which I she has not deviated. Though Nancy died of lung cancer in 2001, her legacy lives on in the writings she inspired.
In the following 10 years, Sarah published the non-fiction works, The Originals (2001) and Nancy Love and the WASP Ferry Pilots of World War II (2008)—fulfilling Nancy’s wish. In addition, her WASP novel Flight from Fear was published in 2002. In 2009 came Nancy Batson Crews: Alabama's First Lady of Flight, the biography of her friend, mentor, and inspiration.
Sarah is now recognized as a WASP historian and unofficial WASP biographer. All her books are about the women pilots who flew in WWII—the original 28 WAFS plus the 1,074 young women who earned their wings in Army flight training in Texas. Today, all 1,102 of those women pilots are known as the WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots).
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