Title: The Woman All Spies Fear: Code Breaker Elizebeth Smith Friedman and Her Hidden LifeBook List: Interesting Nonfiction & Biographies for Teens
Published by: Random House Studio
Release Date: 2021
Author: Amy Butler Greenfield
Genre: Teen
Pages: 328
ISBN13: 9780593127193
Add on GoodreadsThe true story about an American woman who pioneered codebreaking in WWI and WWII but was only recently recognized for her extraordinary contributions.
Elizebeth Smith Friedman always had a penchant for solving riddles. It was this skill, and a desire to do something with her life that led her to become one of the top cryptanalysts in America during both World War I and II. She originally came to codebreaking through her love for Shakespeare when she was hired by an eccentric billionaire to prove that Shakespeare's plays had secret messages in them and were written by Frances Bacon. Though she came to the conclusion that there were not any secret messages in the plays, she learned so much about coding that she went on to play a major role in decoding messages during WWI and WWII and also for the US Coast Guard's own war against smugglers. Elizebeth and her husband, William, became the top codebreaking team in the US, and she did it all at a time when women weren't a welcome presence in the workforce.
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