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Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh (June 22, 1906 – February 7, 2001) was an American writer and aviator. She was the wife of decorated pioneer aviator Charles Lindbergh , with whom she made many exploratory flights.
Listen! The Wind is a 1938 book by the American writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh. It tells the story of Lindbergh's and her husband Charles Lindbergh's 1933 flight from Africa to South America across the Atlantic Ocean. The book focuses on the last ten days of the flight, when weather conditions and illness caused trouble for the couple.
The book sold more than 100,000 copies and was on the New York Times Best Seller list for nearly 30 weeks. [2] Kirkus Reviews wrote: "It is a sensitive—at times a tragic—book, penetrating the depths of men's and women's souls, as line after line of the service is spoken, with its meaning enlarged, heightened by the lives of the listeners. ...
Gift from the Sea is a book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh first published in 1955. While on vacation on Florida's Captiva Island in the early 1950s, Lindbergh wrote the essay-style work by taking shells on the beach for inspiration and reflecting on the lives of Americans, particularly American women, in the mid-20th century. She shares her ...
The Steep Ascent is a 1944 novella by the American writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh. It follows a pregnant woman and her pilot husband as they fly from England over France and the Alps to Italy. It follows a pregnant woman and her pilot husband as they fly from England over France and the Alps to Italy.
Lindbergh inspired songs like “Lindbergh (The Eagle of the U.S.A.)” and “Lucky Lindy,” and may have even inspired a popular dance (the "Lindy Hop," though the origin is disputed).
North to the Orient is a 1935 book by the American writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh.It is the account of the 1931 flight by her and her husband, Charles Lindbergh, from the United States to Japan and China, by the northern route over the Arctic frontier of Canada and Alaska, and Kamchatka peninsula. [1]
The film opens with archive footage of Charles Lindbergh's pioneering 1927 transatlantic flight in the Spirit of St. Louis and the song “Lindbergh (The Eagle of the U.S.A.)”. Hopewell, New Jersey, March 1, 1932. After preparing a bath, Anne Morrow Lindbergh (Sian Barbara Allen) is alerted by her nurse, Betty Gow, that her baby is not in its ...