Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Non-fiction book review - Classified

 

Classified by Traci Sorell

This book was the very first I'd heard of Mary Golda Ross and I'm always game to learn about trailblazing women. Classified does not disappoint. We are introduced to Mary as a youth, a girl with a passion for the sciences in an era when girls were not encouraged to pursue STEM careers and where higher education for non-whites was far from the norm. But Mary doesn't seem to have been at all bothered by those facts or by social pressures. She simply wanted to learn and followed her education to logical conclusions. This is a very brief biography and we learn very little about her contributions but this is largely due to the nature of that work. It is, as the title suggests, still classified. A cool addition to a collection of short biographies. 

Advanced Reader Copy provided by NetGalley.

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