Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II

Code Girls paperback book

New York Times bestselling author and former Washington Post reporter Liza Mundy will be discussing her book, "Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II." Mundy is the featured speaker for our annual Cryptorally event.

Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than 10,000 women served as code breakers during World War II. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, these women moved to Washington and learned the meticulous work of code-breaking. Their efforts shortened the war, saved countless lives and gave them access to careers previously denied to them. A strict vow of secrecy nearly erased their efforts from history; now, through dazzling research and interviews with surviving code girls, bestselling author Liza Mundy brings to life this riveting and vital story of American courage, service and scientific accomplishment.

Paperback editions of the book "Code Girls" will be available for $15 at this event (cash or check only). The author is available to sign books at 2:45 p.m.

Liza Mundy is a journalist and author of four books, most recently "Code Girls." She is a former staff writer for the Washington Post, where she specialized in long-form narrative writing, and her work won a number of awards. A senior fellow at New America,  a nonpartisan thinktank, Mundy has a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University and a Master of Arts in English literature from the University of Virginia. She lives in Arlington, Virginia, with her husband and two children, just about a mile from Arlington Hall, where the Army code-breaking women worked.

Rhonda Olson
School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
480-727-2468
rhonda.olson@asu.edu
http://math.asu.edu
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