Radium Girls (Moore) - Author Bio

Author Bio
Kate Moore is a the author of The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women (UK title, The Radium Girls: They Paid with Their Lives. Their Final Fight Was for Justice).

Prior to becoming a writer, Moore worked for 12 years in publishing, as an editorial director for Penguin Random House. In 2014 she turned to freelance—ghostwriting memoir, biography, and history.

It was in 2015, while directing a London version of the play, These Shining Lives, the story of women in Ottowa, Canada, who worked with radium, that Moore realized no account of the tragedy existed from the perspective of the women. That led her to conduct her own research and eventually write The Radium Girls. (Adapted from the publisher and Goodreads.)