Copyright © 2016 by Alice Arlen and Michael J. Arlen

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto.

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All of the images in this book are courtesy of a family collection, with exception of the article and photographs on this page, which is copyright © 1951 SEPS, licensed by Curtis Licensing, Indianapolis, Indiana. all rights reserved, and the image on this page, which is from Time magazine, September 23, 1954, copyright © 1954 Time, Inc. Used under license.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Arlen, Alice, 1940–2016. Arlen, Michael J.

Title: The huntress : the adventures, escapades, and triumphs of Alicia Patterson: aviatrix, sportswoman, journalist, publisher / Alice Arlen and Michael J. Arlen.

Description: New York : Pantheon, 2016.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015048178. ISBN 978-1-101-87113-3 (hardback). ISBN 978-1-101-87114-0 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Patterson, Alicia, 1906–1963. Women publishers—United States—Biography. Women journalists—United States—Biography. Newsday (Hempstead, N.Y.)—History. Women air pilots—United States—Biography. Women adventurers—United States—Biography. Horsemen and horsewomen—United States—Biography. BISAC: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY/General. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY/Editors, Journalists, Publishers. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY/Women.

Classification: LCC CT275.P417 A75 2016. DDC070.5092/273—dc23. LC record available at lccn.loc.gov/​2015048178

ebook ISBN 9781101871140

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Cover images: Alicia Patterson, in 1943. Reproduced from Hofstra University Special Collections. All other photographs, courtesy of a family collection.

Cover design by Janet Hansen

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