Elise: Exactly. These women's lives were not documented nearly like Jesse Owens, for example, or something. There were a lot of gaps in the record, especially when it came to Louise Stokes, one of these black athletes who qualified in '32, again in '36. There was a lot of room to do some imagining about what their lives were like, what especially their interior journeys were like. This was a generation who didn't really speak about how they felt. The Greatest Generation just was living and surviving through hard times. That's just the way life was. There was a lot of room to create a story around these women. My three main characters are Helen Stephens, Betty, and Louise Stokes. They all kind of come together in 1936, but I had to create some connections, too, between them to get them on this path. There was definitely some moving around of things. I write in my afterward, the changes I had to make to the historical record to make this flow more as a real story. It's really hard to get three people's lives in different parts of the country to intersect in a way that kind of made sense.