Daughter of Daring

""Both a biography of Gibson and a sharp-eyed look at the evolution of Hollywood and women's involvement in it, O'Meara's third popular history is witty, wise, and winning."" -Booklist, starred review ""Colloquial, engagingly written biography recounts the life and times of Helen Gibson... Practitioners in women's and cinema history and general readers will appreciate information about this trailblazing pioneer."" -Library Journal ""High-flying biography.... Gibson's death-defying feats astound, and O'Meara provides perceptive context on the era's gender politics ...It's an enthralling tribute to an early Hollywood pioneer.""--Publishers Weekly Praise for Mallory O'Meara ""An insightful, entertaining feminist history."" -USA Today on Girly Drinks ""Thorough, and thoroughly entertaining... Provoking both thought and laughter."" -Publishers Weekly, starred review on Girly Drinks ""Fun facts abound in O'Meara's volume... A unique, entertaining resource to bolster culinary and women's studies collections."" -Library Journal on Girly Drinks ""This is a book that should be on any beverage alcohol enthusiast's shelf.""-American Whiskey Magazine on Girly Drinks ""An exhaustively detailed yet breezy history set against the arc of overall women's rights around the globe."" -Kansas City Star on Girly Drinks ""Mallory O'Meara has put women at the center of a global history of alcohol. ...A whirlwind tour of the role women have played in what we drink, and how, when, and why we drink it."" --AMY STEWART, author of The Drunken Botanist ""Girly Drinks is anything but--a raw shot of boozy history that stings as well as it soothes!"" --PATTON OSWALT ""Cheers to Mallory O'Meara and her serious yet seriously entertaining treatise."" --JEANETTE HURT, author of Wisconsin Cocktails and Drink Like a Woman ""Thanks to [O'Meara's] persistent efforts, The Lady from the Black Lagoon pulls Milicent Patrick and her considerable accomplishments out of the murky swamp of overlooked history and back into the light."" --New York Times Book Review on The Lady from the Black Lagoon ""Engaging and compelling."" --Los Angeles Times on The Lady from the Black Lagoon ""Chatty, impassioned... O'Meara is a dogged researcher and a fierce partisan."" --Maureen Corrigan, NPR ""Fresh Air"" on The Lady from the Black Lagoon ""Captivating and exhaustively researched...This is a fascinating slice of Hollywood history with a feminist slant."" --Publishers Weekly (starred review) on The Lady from the Black Lagoon ""This is a book that O'Meara was born to write, and she seamlessly meshes her own life story with that of her heroine... a riveting, sincere Hollywood saga that will quickly win your heart."" --BookPage (starred review) on The Lady from the Black Lagoon ""An incisive criticism of the erasure of women in Hollywood."" --Bustle on The Lady from the Black Lagoon