Harriet Quimby, an American aviation pioneer, journalist, and a movie screenwriter. In 1911, she was awarded a U.S. pilot's certificate by the Aero Club of America, becoming the first woman to gain a pilot's license in the United States.

 In 1912, she became the first woman to fly across the English Channel.

In 1902, when she began writing for the San Francisco Dramatic Review and also contributed to the Sunday editions of the San Francisco Chronicle and San Francisco Call. She moved to Manhattan, New York City in 1903 to work as a theater critic for Leslie's Illustrated Weekly and more than 250 of her articles were published over a nine-year period.

Seven of her screenplays were directed by D. W. Griffith and made into silent film shorts by Biograph Studios.

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