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Named to the New York Public Library's Best Books for the Teen Age 2006 As a tomboy growing up in Kansas, Amelia Earhart delighted in
trying new and risky things, once even building a roller-coaster in her
grandparents' backyard. In her 20s she fell in love with flight while
watching an aerobatics exhibition and grew even more enthralled when she
took her first airplane ride.
At age 24 she earned her pilot's wings and 1928 took part in the
transatlantic "Friendship" flight. Her willowy build, wholesome smile, and
tousled blonde hair invited comparison to the celebrated pilot Charles
Lindbergh, and "Lady Lindy" charmed the public with her unassuming manner.
In 1937, Earhart wed publisher George Putnam, who managed her career
and promoted her zealously, ensuring her status as the world's best-known
aviatrix. The next year, she soloed the Atlantic, afterward receiving the
Distinguished Flying Cross and began championing the efforts of women
throughout the world to explore careers -- especially in aviation --
traditionally held by men.Tragically, just days before her fortieth birthday, Earhart, her
navigator Fred Noonan, and their plane vanished en route to tiny Howland
Island in the Pacific Ocean as they neared the end of their round-the-world
journey. President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the greatest land and
ocean search ever undertaken but no trace of the missing flyers or their
craft were ever found.
To Amelia Earhart, even the sky was no limit to those with the
courage to test new boundaries.
trying new and risky things, once even building a roller-coaster in her
grandparents' backyard. In her 20s she fell in love with flight while
watching an aerobatics exhibition and grew even more enthralled when she
took her first airplane ride.
At age 24 she earned her pilot's wings and 1928 took part in the
transatlantic "Friendship" flight. Her willowy build, wholesome smile, and
tousled blonde hair invited comparison to the celebrated pilot Charles
Lindbergh, and "Lady Lindy" charmed the public with her unassuming manner.
In 1937, Earhart wed publisher George Putnam, who managed her career
and promoted her zealously, ensuring her status as the world's best-known
aviatrix. The next year, she soloed the Atlantic, afterward receiving the
Distinguished Flying Cross and began championing the efforts of women
throughout the world to explore careers -- especially in aviation --
traditionally held by men.Tragically, just days before her fortieth birthday, Earhart, her
navigator Fred Noonan, and their plane vanished en route to tiny Howland
Island in the Pacific Ocean as they neared the end of their round-the-world
journey. President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the greatest land and
ocean search ever undertaken but no trace of the missing flyers or their
craft were ever found.
To Amelia Earhart, even the sky was no limit to those with the
courage to test new boundaries.
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About the Author:
Lori Van Pelt is a former newspaperwoman whose nonfiction work has appeared in Pilot Getaways, Private Pilot, and numerous other magazines. Her short fiction has appeared in many anthologies and she is author of books of regional history and she has recently completed a collection of historical short fiction, forthcoming from the University of New Mexico Press. She is a member of Western Writers of America and makes their home on her husband's ranch near Saratoga, Wyoming.
From Booklist:
Van Pelt's fine introduction to the best-known of pioneering female airplane pilots inaugurates another short-biography series, American Heroes. The portrait it paints is fully adequate in detail and balance, including as it does such aspects as how Earhart's father's alcoholism affected--nearly ruined--the family and affected her relations with the rest of them. Always intellectually alive and curious, Earhart didn't at first think of flying in connection with the status of women--it was just fun. She quickly came to realize, however, what larger goals might be served by her flying, and she never lost sight of them thereafter, right up to her disappearance in 1937. Van Pelt covers a good many of Earhart's achievements that all but the largest biographies leave out, and she treats Earhart's husband, George Putnam, fairly (he was something of a wheeler-dealer but honored a prenuptial agreement nearly two generations ahead of the time for that kind of thing). Everybody ought to have basic knowledge of Earhart; this is a good place to acquire it. Roland Green
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