Beverly Lionberger Hodgins was born in Portland, Oregon, and for many years enjoyed the surrounding rivers, lakes, mountains, and forests before moving to equally lovely Washington State. As the great-granddaughter of Oregon pioneers, Hodgins has a distinct interest in all things regarding the settling, development, and history of the Pacific and Inland Northwest, and enjoys writing about fascinating people who lived before—particularly women who lived life on their own terms.Hodgins’s screenplay Wayward Warrior, based on her husband’s Vietnam service, was a semi-finalist for the FilmMakers International Screenwriting Awards. She once served as a personal interest story reporter for the Washington State Employees’ Intranet. She is the author of Mercy and Madness: Dr. Mary Archard Latham’s Tragic Fall from Female Physician to Felon (TwoDot), the essay “A New Dawn” published in the anthology Chocolate for a Woman’s Courage, and poems published in college literary reviews. She lives in Spokane, Washington, with her husband, Tom.

• IntroductionChapter 1: A Nation’s Call for HelpChapter 2: Augusta Clawson—Until War’s EndChapter 3: Henry’s Pacific ShipyardsChapter 4: Who was Henry John Kaiser?Chapter 5: Housing Shipyard WorkersChapter 6: Celebrated Childcare CenterChapter 7: Training Women to WeldChapter 8: Hazards in the HullsChapter 9: X-Ray and Asbestos Peril ExposedChapter 10: Medical Care for AllChapter 11: Men vs. Women WeldersChapter 12: A Tight Seam of SupportChapter 13: Racism in the YardChapter 14: A Fractured Failure and a ComebackChapter 15: Best Woman Welder in the WorldChapter 16: Augusta Clawson—Beyond War’s EndBibliographyAcknowledgmentsIndexAbout the Author

"The Shipyard Agent is a riveting account of women who stepped in during wartime to fill the country’s greatest need: building ships. They were agents of change, proving that women had the will and the stamina to do a man’s job in this noisy, exhausting, hard physical realm, and their work would influence future generations. This is a well-researched, engaging book, with stories of the author’s own ancestor."

Beverly Lionberger Hodgins was born in Portland, Oregon, and for many years enjoyed the surrounding rivers, lakes, mountains, and forests before moving to equally lovely Washington State. As the great-granddaughter of Oregon pioneers, Hodgins has a distinct interest in all things regarding the settling, development, and history of the Pacific and Inland Northwest, and enjoys writing about fascinating people who lived before—particularly women who lived life on their own terms.Hodgins’s screenplay Wayward Warrior, based on her husband’s Vietnam service, was a semi-finalist for the FilmMakers International Screenwriting Awards. She once served as a personal interest story reporter for the Washington State Employees’ Intranet. She is the author of Mercy and Madness: Dr. Mary Archard Latham’s Tragic Fall from Female Physician to Felon (TwoDot), the essay “A New Dawn” published in the anthology Chocolate for a Woman’s Courage, and poems published in college literary reviews. She lives in Spokane, Washington, with her husband, Tom.

• IntroductionChapter 1: A Nation’s Call for HelpChapter 2: Augusta Clawson—Until War’s EndChapter 3: Henry’s Pacific ShipyardsChapter 4: Who was Henry John Kaiser?Chapter 5: Housing Shipyard WorkersChapter 6: Celebrated Childcare CenterChapter 7: Training Women to WeldChapter 8: Hazards in the HullsChapter 9: X-Ray and Asbestos Peril ExposedChapter 10: Medical Care for AllChapter 11: Men vs. Women WeldersChapter 12: A Tight Seam of SupportChapter 13: Racism in the YardChapter 14: A Fractured Failure and a ComebackChapter 15: Best Woman Welder in the WorldChapter 16: Augusta Clawson—Beyond War’s EndBibliographyAcknowledgmentsIndexAbout the Author

"The Shipyard Agent is a riveting account of women who stepped in during wartime to fill the country’s greatest need: building ships. They were agents of change, proving that women had the will and the stamina to do a man’s job in this noisy, exhausting, hard physical realm, and their work would influence future generations. This is a well-researched, engaging book, with stories of the author’s own ancestor."

Beverly Lionberger Hodgins was born in Portland, Oregon, and for many years enjoyed the surrounding rivers, lakes, mountains, and forests before moving to equally lovely Washington State. As the great-granddaughter of Oregon pioneers, Hodgins has a distinct interest in all things regarding the settling, development, and history of the Pacific and Inland Northwest, and enjoys writing about fascinating people who lived before—particularly women who lived life on their own terms.Hodgins’s screenplay Wayward Warrior, based on her husband’s Vietnam service, was a semi-finalist for the FilmMakers International Screenwriting Awards. She once served as a personal interest story reporter for the Washington State Employees’ Intranet. She is the author of Mercy and Madness: Dr. Mary Archard Latham’s Tragic Fall from Female Physician to Felon (TwoDot), the essay “A New Dawn” published in the anthology Chocolate for a Woman’s Courage, and poems published in college literary reviews. She lives in Spokane, Washington, with her husband, Tom.

• IntroductionChapter 1: A Nation’s Call for HelpChapter 2: Augusta Clawson—Until War’s EndChapter 3: Henry’s Pacific ShipyardsChapter 4: Who was Henry John Kaiser?Chapter 5: Housing Shipyard WorkersChapter 6: Celebrated Childcare CenterChapter 7: Training Women to WeldChapter 8: Hazards in the HullsChapter 9: X-Ray and Asbestos Peril ExposedChapter 10: Medical Care for AllChapter 11: Men vs. Women WeldersChapter 12: A Tight Seam of SupportChapter 13: Racism in the YardChapter 14: A Fractured Failure and a ComebackChapter 15: Best Woman Welder in the WorldChapter 16: Augusta Clawson—Beyond War’s EndBibliographyAcknowledgmentsIndexAbout the Author

"The Shipyard Agent is a riveting account of women who stepped in during wartime to fill the country’s greatest need: building ships. They were agents of change, proving that women had the will and the stamina to do a man’s job in this noisy, exhausting, hard physical realm, and their work would influence future generations. This is a well-researched, engaging book, with stories of the author’s own ancestor."