The Aviator and the Showman” by Laurie Gwen Shapiro is an exciting new book about Amelia Earhart that has already created ...

Up,” F. Scott Fitzgerald declared, people “thought of their old best dreams. Maybe there was a way out by flying, maybe our restless blood could find frontiers in the illimitable air.” Born in 1897 in ...

She was a superstar, the most famous woman in the world. She was a pilot, “it” girl, author, adventurer, fashion designer, ...

International News Photos, wikimedia commons Documentarian and journalist Laurie Gwen Shapiro’s forthcoming book is about an ...

Book Review. The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage That Made an American Icon. By Laurie Gwen Shapiro Viking: 512 pages, $35 ...

Eighty-eight years have passed since Amelia Earhart vanished into legend, her silver Lockheed Electra disappearing somewhere ...

George Palmer Putnam, co-founder of the Jazz Age nightclub, introduced the world to Rudy Vallée and fell hard for Amelia ...

Purdue University - where Earhart served as a faculty member - announced it will investigate a “visual anomaly” spotted in ...

An excerpt of “The Aviator and the Showman,” a new book by Laurie Gwen Shapiro about the marriage between Amelia Earhart and George Palmer Putnam and her attempt to fly around the world with ...

There have been many books. And there’s Amelia Earhart Elementary School at 1710 E. 93rd St. in the city’s Calumet Heights neighborhood. Also an exciting new book, “The Aviator and the ...