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The book features a young Amelia Earhart, before she became the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. As a child, young Amelia Earhart built a makeshift roller coaster in her backyard, using planks of wood and a wooden crate. She crashed. It was loud. It was noisy. It was the first time she flew, but it would not be her last.
It tells a fictional account of what happened to Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, after they disappeared off the coast of New Guinea in 1937. The book was shortlisted for the 1997 Orange Prize for Fiction and appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list for fourteen weeks.
Amelia Mary Earhart was born on July 24, 1897, in Atchison, Kansas, as the daughter of Samuel "Edwin" Stanton Earhart (1867–1930) and Amelia "Amy" (née Otis; 1869–1962). [9] Amelia was born in the home of her maternal grandfather Alfred Gideon Otis (1827–1912), who was a former judge in Kansas, the president of Atchison Savings Bank, and ...
But she was a woman of consequence,” says Dorothy Cochrane, a curator at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. In his 1966 book The Search for Amelia Earhart, San Francisco radio ...
I Was Amelia Earhart (1996) Innocence (2000) American Music (2010) Burning Down the House (2016) Mendelsohn’s debut novel, I Was Amelia Earhart, tells the fictional account of the days leading up to, and after, the mid-flight disappearance of legendary aviator Amelia Earhart and her navigator in 1937.
The Deep Sea Vision team was out to solve the greatest aviation mystery of all: the disappearance of Amelia Earhart on July 2, 1937, during her epic flight around the world. How explorers found ...
The disappearance of early 20th century aviator Amelia Earhart has puzzled people for decades, with some suggesting she was lost to the sea and others positing that she became a castaway on a ...
In it Earhart recollects how she became interested in being an aviator, and also becoming aviation editor for Cosmopolitan Magazine. [2] In the book she also recounts her 1928 trans-Atlantic flight. [3] She also profiles the careers of other pioneering female flyers of her time. Earhart also encourages young women to follow their own careers ...