Nuclear Fiction Newsletter, Issue #19

Two Daughters of Fission Talk in Oak Ridge

Book Cover for Coryell Interviews

On October 16, my friend Julie Coryell and I presented a talk for the Oak Ridge Heritage and Preservation Association about our parents’ wartime experiences during the Manhattan Project and how we memorialized them—Julie editing a book of interviews with her father, the eminent chemist Charles D. Coryell, and me writing a novel based loosely on my parents’ stories. Charles Coryell was my father’s group leader at the University of Chicago and Oak Ridge.

Although we had planned to travel together, in the end Julie gave her presentation as a video and I still managed to get there in person. We had a wonderful audience, but we also recorded my part of the talk so that you can watch our entire “Oak Ridge Pilgrimage” on YouTube, courtesy of Oak Ridge historian D. Ray Smith. I probably will have an internet book launch celebration at the end of January when Fission is published, but this occasion really felt like my book launch and I hope some of my friends and readers will take the time to view it.

Part 1: https://youtu.be/J_CmcuDJuXA

Part 2: https://youtu.be/haG-cms00y8