![]() ![]() The records building the Red Cross had with all of the Clubmobile corps information burned down, I believe, in the early '70s. I couldn't have done it because the records are gone. But even if you wanted to make this a nonfiction story, you found that would have been difficult. SIMON: You're a great novelist when you've turned your hand to fiction, and, you know, you should write a great novel. ![]() And, you know, I think they became each other's rolling sanctuary under duress. And Jill was a very realistic Hoosier woman, you know, from Indiana, very intelligent. You know, she thought she was a '40s movie star. You know, my mother was a Manhattan socialite, had a kind of a Greer Garson obsession. SIMON: They have different backgrounds, but they shared the hazards of the front lines, didn't they? SIMON: The lead characters of your novel, Irene, kind of your mother. SIMON: Luis Alberto Urrea, who's been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction, turned to fiction to tell the story inspired by his mother, Phyllis McLaughlin, and her friends. So in honor of my mother and her best friend, Jill, who drove the truck, I decided to bring them back. ![]() And these women drove 2 1/2-ton GMC trucks with galleys on the back with the doughnut cookers and coffee machines and record players all along Patton's route with the Third Army, but have been forgotten by history. LUIS ALBERTO URREA: Well, my mother was in Clubmobile corps for the Red Cross during World War II, and they were known in the vernacular as Donut Dollies. Luis Alberto Urrea, please tell us about the photo, three women smiling, at the front of your new novel, "Good Night, Irene." ![]()
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