Queen of the Mist

The Forgotten Heroine of Niagara. This novel-in-verse tells the fascinating story of Annie Taylor who in 1901 became the first person to plunge over the brink of Niagara Falls in a barrel. But as Joan Murray reveals America didn't know what to do with a mature and self-possessed heroine: Annie Taylor as an older woman was rejected and exploited and finally eclipsed by the man who repeated her stunt ten years later.. A portrait of a woman so achingly intimate it will linger long in your memory.-Joyce Carol Oates