author
Bess Moyer
Early-1930s aviation adventure was her specialty, with stories that put daring young women in the pilot’s seat. Best known for the Girl Flyers books, she wrote brisk children’s mysteries built around flying, twins, and rescue missions.
2 Audiobooks
On Adventure Island
by Bess Moyer
Gypsies of the Air
by Bess Moyer
About the author
Bess Moyer is a little-documented American author associated with the Girl Flyers series, published by Goldsmith in 1932. The series includes Gypsies of the Air and Girl Flyers on Adventure Island, and centers on twin sisters who fly planes, work on them, and get pulled into mysteries.
Public-domain and catalog sources confirm that Gypsies of the Air is a children’s adventure novel from the early 1930s featuring a young pilot, Terry Mapes, and themes of courage, rescue, and aviation. That mix of fast-moving plot and girl-centered flying adventure gives Moyer’s work a distinctive place in vintage juvenile fiction.
Very little verified biographical information about her appears to be readily available online, so her books remain the clearest window into her career. For readers who enjoy classic children’s series, airborne escapades, and early stories of girls in adventurous roles, her fiction still has real period charm.