Joye Hummel, first woman hired to write Wonder Woman comics, dies at 97
Joye Hummel, first woman hired to write Wonder Woman comics, dies at 97 By Harrison Smith The Washington Post,Updated April 9, 2021, 4:39 p.m. Email to a Friend Joye HummelElizabeth O'Brien/Smithsonian Institution/Handout In March 1944, shortly before Joye Hummel graduated from the Katharine Gibbs secretarial school in Manhattan, she was invited to meet with one of her instructors, a charismatic psychologist who had been impressed by her essays on a take-home test. Over tea at the Harvard Club, professor William Moulton Marston offered her a job - not in the classroom or psych lab, but in the...