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Wallmark, Laurie

Hedy Lamarr's Double Life

48 pp. | Sterling | February, 2019 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4549-2691-7 $16.95
(2) K-3 Illustrated by Katy Wu. WWII-era film star Hedy Lamarr (1914–2000) was also an inventor whose "brain overflowed with idea after idea." Though Lamarr's technology is widely used in today's electronics, it took decades for her work to be acknowledged. Well-chosen quotes reveal Lamarr's frustration with people's assumptions about her intelligence based on her "pretty face." Approachable digital illustrations ably portray Lamarr in glitz-and-glam-Hollywood mode and at her inventing table. Reading list, timeline. Bib.
Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2019

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