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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 ...
20 Hrs. 40 Min.: Our Flight in the Friendship is a book written by pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart. It was first published in 1928 by G. P. Putnam's Sons, but has continued to be reprinted in periodic new editions. A special "Author's Autograph Edition" of 150 signed and numbered copies was also produced in 1928. Wilmer Stultz was the pilot.
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.
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 ...
Amelia Earhart is photographed with her Lockheed Model 10-E Electra, the aircraft she used in her attempted flight around the world. Earhart and the plane went missing on July 2, 1937.
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.
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 ...
Even still, she used her growing prominence to push for equality in the skies; in an interview with the Evening Star in 1929, Earhart pleaded with the public to "give women a chance in the air."