Drawing on 150 interviews and extensive archival research, this definitive biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all time, who gave women a permanent place on the air, reveals the woman behind the legacy-one who broke all the rules to tell viewers what they deserved to know.

"The Newbery Honor-winning author of Hatchet and Dogsong shares surprising true stories about his relationship with animals, highlighting their compassion, intellect, intuition, and sense of adventure. Gary Paulsen is an adventurer who competed in two Iditarods, survived the Minnesota wilderness, and climbed the Bighorns. None of this would have been possible without his truest companion: his animals. Sled dogs rescued him in Alaska, a sickened poodle...