Julia Cooke is a journalist, travel writer and contributing editor at Virginia Quarterly Review. Her work has featured in Time, Conde Nast Traveller, Salon and Best Women's Travel Writing (Vol. 9), among many others, and she has taught writing at The New School and Columbia University. Her first book, The Other Side of Paradise (Seal Press) profiled young Cubans in post-Fidel Havana. Cooke's writing shows a persistent interest in how people-and women, in particular-negotiate individual desires and ambitions within the culture, history, and politics of wherever they call home. She lives in Vermont.
...In confident, clear-eyed, multi-layered prose, Julia Cooke
brings to life the true stories of unforgettable Pan-Am
stewardesses who defied convention, to seek more from life than
they were given. This is a well-researched and fascinating history
of air travel, gender equality, and so much more.
*– Rachel Khong, author of GOODBYE VITAMIN*
Come Fly the World is a pop passport to another time. Take a social
history flight with the women of Pan Am.
*– Lily Koppel, author of New York Times bestseller THE ASTRONAUT
WIVES CLUB*
Before second-wave feminism came along to challenge the admissions
policies of law, medical, and business schools, there were
stewardesses-women every bit as daring and determined as their
later counterparts in the professions, and having more fun... [Come
Fly the World is] a rollicking, rambunctious ride down the runway
of mid-century modern life.
*– Megan Marshall, author of Pulitzer Prize-winning MARGARET
FULLER: A New American Life and ELIZABETH BISHOP: A Miracle for
Breakfast*
This engrossing account, which reads like a novel, offers a
combination of riveting personal stories and little-known history,
and will draw in readers from the first page.
*- Library Journal*
'Here's the chance to travel-in time and in the sky-vicariously.
Julia Cooke's intimate storytelling weaves together the real-life
tales of a memorable cast of Pan Am flight attendants as they
embraced the liberation of their new jet-set life. The nonfiction
work also unearths little-known stories about how Pan Am flight
attendants went above and beyond, including their role in the
Vietnam War.'
*Fortune*
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