New York Author Laurie Gwen Shapiro presented her new book about Amelia Earhart, The Aviator and the Showman, on Tuesday, October 14.
In 1920, a young social worker and hobby pilot named Amelia Earhart arrived in the office of George Putnam, heir to the Putnam & Sons throne and hitmaker, on the hunt for the right woman for a secret flying mission across the Atlantic. A partnership – professional and soon otherwise – was born.
Ms. Shapiro is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and journalist whose writings have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York, The Daily Beast, Laphams Quarterly, Slate, Aeon, The Forward, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
