{"id":158235,"date":"2025-04-08T08:57:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T12:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=158235"},"modified":"2025-04-08T10:36:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T14:36:33","slug":"author-of-historical-novel-about-katharine-wright-to-give-talk-at-wright-state-on-april-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2025\/04\/08\/author-of-historical-novel-about-katharine-wright-to-give-talk-at-wright-state-on-april-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Author of historical novel about Katharine Wright to give talk at Wright State on April 14"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tracey Enerson Wood is the author of \u201cKatharine, the Wright Sister.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

The author of a historical novel about Katharine Wright, sister of flight pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright, will visit Wright State University on Monday, April 14.<\/p>\n

International bestseller Tracey Enerson Wood will give a talk about \u201cKatharine, the Wright Sister\u201d at 7 p.m. in the Student Union Apollo Room. Wood\u2019s talk is open to the public.<\/p>\n

\u201cKatharine, The Wright Sister\u201d shines a light on the mastermind behind her brothers\u2019 famous invention, the airplane. The book delves into the incredible risks and sacrifices of a family devoted to each other and their dream.<\/p>\n

It is the fourth novel by Wood, who enjoys discovering amazing women whose stories have been lost to history and bringing them to life for today\u2019s readers.<\/p>\n

\u201cChoosing to write \u2018Katharine, the Wright Sister\u2019 was a combination of my fascination and family history in aviation, the thrill of uncovering another unheralded woman in history and in no small part due to the setting of Dayton, Ohio,\u201d said Wood. \u201cAs Dayton is my husband\u2019s hometown, and my adopted hometown as well, I have many fond memories of spending holidays there and enjoying coming back for visits still.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Wright State\u2019s Special Collections and Archives<\/a>, which has the most complete collection of archival Wright family material in the world, provided critical information and photos during Woods\u2019 research for the book.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m so pleased to be returning to chat about it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Wood\u2019s previous novel, \u201cThe President\u2019s Wife,\u201d tells the tale of Edith Bolling Wilson and her whirlwind romance and marriage to Woodrow Wilson. Her debut novel, \u201cThe Engineer\u2019s Wife,\u201d is based on Emily Warren Roebling, the woman who completed the Brooklyn Bridge despite tremendous obstacles. Wood is also the author of \u201cThe War Nurse,\u201d the story of Julia Stimson and her nurses in France during World War I.<\/p>\n

While working as a registered nurse and later running her own interior design company, Wood indulged in her passion for writing. She penned numerous award-winning plays, wrote a monthly health column for a national magazine, reviewed restaurants for several local magazines and wrote two screenplays. She currently resides near Tampa, Florida.<\/p>\n

Copies of \u201cKatharine, the Wright Sister\u201d will be available for purchase following the book talk and will be signed by Wood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tracey Enerson Wood will give a talk about her historical novel \u201cKatharine, the Wright Sister\u201d on Monday, April 14, at 7 p.m. in Wright State\u2019s Student Union Apollo Room. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":158254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,725,2114,715,2118,4293],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","category-home-news-sidebar","category-libraries","category-news","category-special-collections-and-archives","category-student-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158235"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158286,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158235\/revisions\/158286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}