Sarah Byrn Rickman left her newspaper editor job in 1989 to write books.

A Masters in Creative Writing, coupled with access to the WASP and WAFS through her freelance job with the International Women’s Air and Space Museum, produced first an award winning WASP novel, Flight from Fear, and then The Originals: The Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron of World War II.

While writing The Originals, Rickman came to realize the need for founder Nancy Love’s biography.