GIRL WITH!A CAMERA 1 GIRL WITH!A CAMERA GIRL WITH!A CAMERA Margret Bourke-White: America’s Groundbreaking Photojournalist AN IMPRINT OF HIGHLIGHTS Honesdale, Pennsylvania Margaret Bourke-White perches with her camera on a Chrysler Building gargoyle 4sixty-one floors above the streets of New York City Text copyright © 2017 by Carolyn Meyer Cover illustration copyright © 2017 by TK For Vered and Giovanny All rights reserved. For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, contact
[email protected]. Although this work is based on the life of Margaret Bourke-White, it is a work of fiction. However, some names, characters, and incidents are products of the authors’ imagination and are used to enhance the story. Calkins Creek An Imprint of Highlights 815 Church Street Honesdale, Pennsylvania 18431 Printed in the United States of America ISBN: 978-1-62979-584-3 (HC) ISBN: 978-1-62979-800-4 (e-book) Library of Congress Control Number: TK First edition The text of this book is set in xxxx. Design by Anahid Hamparian Production by Sue Cole 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Prologue Sometime a!er midnight, a thump—loud and jarring. A torpedo slams into the side of our ship, flinging me out of my bunk. The ship is transporting thousands of troops and hundreds of nurses. It is December 1942, and our country is at war. I am Margaret Bourke-White, the only woman photographer covering this war. The U.S. Army Air Forces has handed me a plum assignment: photographing an Allied a"ack on German troops in North Africa.