![]() ![]() People really want to be on their side," Beaton says. "It's nice to celebrate that person, that person who was left out. She says that as soon as the comic went up, she was flooded with emails asking her to do more on Franklin. "And sort of shuffled off because they didn't acknowledge her work."īeaton's fans were inspired by her version of Franklin's story. "Her discovery was eaten up by and it was put into their research when they put out their big DNA book and that was immense that was a huge thing," Beaton says. That's exactly how Beaton came across the story of British biophysicist Rosalind Franklin, a researcher who, along with James Watson and Francis Crick, helped discover the double helix structure of DNA. ![]() LANGUAGE ADVISORY: This excerpt contains language some may find offensive. He gloats, "Man! It's pretty nice being on the North Pole!. The white explorer, Peary, demands that his black associate help him from his sled so he can stand on the North Pole and get all the glory - but Henson refuses. In her version of the discovery of the North Pole, Henson gets his revenge. "Something had happened to him - maybe he was worn down by cold - and he was driven the last bit of the way, I think, by Henson," cartoonist Kate Beaton tells NPR's David Greene.īeaton's new book, Hark! A Vagrant - based on her website, Hark! A Vagrant - is full of witty rewrites of history and classic literature. But Henson was black and the year was 1909, so for a long time the credit went to his white companion, Robert Peary, even though he never set foot on the North Pole. Some say Matthew Henson was the first explorer to get to the North Pole. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Hark! A Vagrant Author Kate Beaton ![]()
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