She died mysteriously before she was forty.
Yet in the last decade of her life Amelia Earhart soared from obscurity to fame as the best-known female aviator in the world.
She set record after record--among them, the first trans-Atlantic solo flight by a woman, a flight that launched Earhart on a double career as a fighter for women's rights and a tireless crusader for commercial air travel.
Doris L.
Rich's exhaustively researched biography downplays the What Happened to Amelia Earhart? myth by disclosing who Amelia Earhart really was: a woman of three centuries, born in the nineteenth, pioneering in the twentieth, and advocating ideals and dreams relevant to the twenty-first.
About the Author: Doris L.
Rich's varied career as a reporter, writer, photographer, and teacher has taken her all over the world, from Michigan to Guam, Korea, Shanghai, Bangladesh, and Africa.
She is also the author of Queen Bess: Daredevil Aviator (Smithsonian, 1993).
| Was | A woman of three centuries born in the nineteenth pioneering in the twentieth and advocating ideals and dreams relevant to the twentyfirst |
|---|---|
| Author | Doris |
| Bess | Daredevil |
