She went to join the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) (CIA’s forerunner), in 1943 she worked in the Belgian Congo to keep the unique uranium mine in Katanga province Shinkolobwe out of the hands of the Axis powers.
[1][2] Along with artist W. Langdon Kihn, Chidsey was a Democratic candidate for the Connecticut House of Representatives from the town of Lyme, in the November 2, 1948 election.
[3] Donald Barr Chidsey died on March 17, 1981, in Lawrence Memorial Hospital at New London, Connecticut.
Chidsey began his writing career as a contributor to the pulp magazines, especially Argosy and Adventure.
[7] His Majesty's Highwayman (1958) is about a young man forced to join a gang of highwaymen in eighteenth-century England.