by Mari K Eder | Jul 24, 2023 | Op-Eds and Commentary
As published in the July – August 2023 edition of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution National Defender. A recent military magazine article on WWII journalists neglected to mention any women correspondents aside from Martha Gellhorn, and... 
by Mari K Eder | Apr 4, 2023 | Newsletters
In midsummer 1942, a twelve-year-old girl living in Amsterdam felt her life shift from freedom to fear. Anne Frank and her family went into hiding to avoid being arrested and deported by the Nazis. Thirty-six miles south of the Frank family’s hiding place, in an annex... 
by Mari K Eder | May 7, 2022 | Newsletters
The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line launched out of the publisher’s hands and into the faraway lands of multiple independent bookstores, Amazon listings, and thousands of libraries on August 3, 2021. The book arrived to a mix of good reviews and some great ones, plus... 
by Mari K Eder | Jan 4, 2022 | Newsletters
So many of the women I’ve written about in The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line, faced a crisis of faith in their young lives. Some found themselves struggling for a chance to prove themselves, yearning for acceptance, hoping to find a sense of belonging. Others... 
by Mari K Eder | Sep 8, 2021 | Op-Eds and Commentary
My new book, The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line, features the stories of a handful of women who changed the course of war during the interminable years of 1940 to 1945. Over the course of my research, I encountered thousands. And I went deep into their life...