Why Authors Write

Tara Masih on Truth and Fiction in The Silent Women

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In this episode of Why Authors Write, host Mary J Cronin sits down with award‑winning author Tara Lynn Masih to explore the long research and writing journey behind her new historical novel, The Silent Women.

Tara shares how this book began not with Oak Ridge, but in the archives of the Andover Historical Society, where a story about a WAVES volunteer and parachute rigger first captured her…