Fast Girls, an amazing new novel by Elise Hooper, is based on the lives of three women from the 1936 U.S. Olympic Track and Field Team. The stories of Helen Stephens, Louise Stokes, and Betty Robinson describe the challenges of being an amateur athlete during a time when women’s sports were given much less support and attention than men’s. (The book also includes runner Tidye Pickett, whose individual story isn’t told, but is another woman…
