Kate Moore is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Radium Girls, which won the 2017 Goodreads Choice Award for Best History, was voted U.S. librarians' favorite nonfiction book of 2017, and was named a Notable Nonfiction Book of 2018 by the American Library Association. A British writer based in London, Kate writes across a variety of genres and has had multiple titles on the Sunday Times bestseller list. She is passionate about politics, storytelling, and resurrecting forgotten heroes.
"...[A] fascinating social history - one that significantly
reflects on the class and gender of those involved - [is] Catherine
Cookson meets Mad Men...The importance of the brave and blighted
dial-painters cannot be overstated." -- Sunday Times
"Radium Girls is a shocking, heartbreaking story of corporate greed
and denial, and the strength of the human spirit in face of it. To
read it is to honor these women who unwittingly sacrificed their
lives but whose courage to stand up and be heard speaks to us from
the grave. It is a tale for our times." -- Peter Stark, author of
Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific
Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival
"Radium Girls was a wonderful and sad read about amazingly brave
women. Kate Moore tells their incredible true story of tragedy and
bravery in the face of corporate greed. We all should know the
stories of these women who suffered through radium poisoning and
refused to be silenced. This isn't just an important part of
history, but a page turner that will leave you heartbroken and
emboldened. It is a must read." -- Rachel Ignotofsky, author of
Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World
"A heartfelt ... history." -- Sunday Telegraph
"In this thrilling and carefully crafted book, Kate Moore tells the
shocking story of how early 20th-century corporate and legal
America set about silencing dozens of working-class women who had
been systematically poisoned by radiation ... Moore [writes] so
lyrically ... FIVE STARS" -- Mail on Sunday
"Kate Moore . . . writes with a sense of drama that carries one
through the serpentine twists and turns of this tragic but
ultimately uplifting story. She sees the trees for the wood: always
at the center of her narrative are the individual dial painters, so
the list of their names at the start of the book becomes a register
of familiar, endearing ghosts." -- Spectator
"Kate Moore vividly depicts the female factory workers whose
courage led to a revolution in industrial safety standards. In
describing their heart wrenching struggles and bittersweet
triumphs, Moore delivers an intimate portrait of these pioneers.
Uplifting and beautifully written, The Radium Girls is a tribute to
the strength of women everywhere." -- Nathalia Holt, New York Times
bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who
Propelled Us From Missiles to the Moon to Mars
"Kate Moore's gripping narrative about the betrayal of the radium
girls--gracefully told and exhaustively researched--makes this a
nonfiction classic. I particularly admire Moore's compassion for
her subjects and her story-telling prowess, which brings alive a
shameful era in America's industrial history." -- Rinker Buck,
author of The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey and Flight of
Passage
"Like Dava Sobel's The Glass Universe and Margot Lee Shetterly's
Hidden Figures, Kate Moore's The Radium Girls tells the story of a
cohort of women who made history by entering the workforce at the
dawn of a new scientific era. But the young women--many of them
just teenagers--who learned the skill of painting glow-in-the-dark
numbers on clock faces and aeronautical gauges early in the
twentieth century paid a stiff price for their part in this
breakthrough involving the deadly element, radium. Moore sheds new
light on a dark chapter in American labor history; the "Radium
Girls," martyrs to an unholy alliance of commerce and science, live
again in her telling" -- Megan Marshall, Pulitzer Prize-winning
author of Margaret Fuller: A New American Life and Elizabeth
Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast
"Radium Girls spares us nothing of their suffering; though at times
the foreshadowing reads more like a true-crime story, Moore is
intent on making the reader viscerally understand the pain in which
these young women were living, and through which they had to fight
in order to get their problems recognized...The story of real women
at the mercy of businesses who see them only as a potential risk to
the bottom line is haunting precisely because of how little has
changed; the glowing ghosts of the radium girls haunt us still." --
NPR Books
"A perfect blend of the historical, the scientific, and the
personal, this richly detailed book sheds a whole new light on this
unique element and the role it played in changing workers' rights.
The Radium Girls makes it impossible for you to ignore these
women's incredible stories, and proves why, now more than ever, we
can't afford to ignore science, either." -- Bustle
"A toxic tale of American greed at the expenses of youthful
innocence and hope, an expos� of collusion by the professional
class (lawyers, doctors, and executives) to defraud and defame and
debase a generation of women whose only crime was
their desire to work for a decent wage....You will be angry; you
will want to fight. But it is also a celebration of those lives
lost that made a difference, lives that changed labor laws and
opened doors to new and better safety regulations in the work
place." -- Illinois Heritage
"Carefully researched, the work will stun readers with its
descriptions of the glittering artisans who, oblivious to health
dangers, twirled camel-hair brushes to fine points using their
mouths, a technique called lip-pointing...Moore details what was a
'ground-breaking, law-changing, and life-saving accomplishment' for
worker's rights." -- Publishers Weekly
"Compelling chronicle of women whose work maimed and killed them
while their employers, their doctors and their government turned a
blind eye to their suffering" -- The Seattle Times
"Kate Moore has dug deep to expose a wrong that still resonates-as
it should-in this country. Exceptional!" -- San Francisco Book
Review
"Moore's harrowing but humane story describes the struggle of a few
brave women who took their case to court in a fight for justice
that is still resonant today" -- Saga
"Moore's well-researched narrative is written with clarity and a
sympathetic voice that brings these figures and their struggles to
life...a must-read for anyone interested in American and women's
history, as well as topics of law, health, and industrial safety."
-- STARRED Library Journal
"The Radium Girls" is the story of a group of people who fought for
justice and basic human rights. But it is also a preface to the
far-reaching effects of contamination that persist today, and
perhaps others that have yet to be revealed." -- Undark
"This timely book celebrates the strength of a group of women,
whose determination to fight improved both labor laws and
scientific knowledge of radium poisoning. Written in a highly
readable, narrative style, Moore's chronicle of these inspirational
women's lives is sure to provoke discussion--and outrage--in book
groups." -- Booklist-STARRED review
"We sometimes need reminding of where health and safety came from,
and why it is so very important for progress. The Radium Girls
compels us to remember." -- Chemistry World
"Written with the taut pacing of a novel, Kate Moore's The Radium
Girls tells the horrifying true story of the young women who worked
in radium dial factories in the 1920s and '30s...Their incredible
story, beautifully told by Kate Moore, is sure to incite equal
parts compassion and horror in the reader.
" -- BookPage
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