A Biography
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She died mysteriously before she was 40.
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:
the first woman to fly the Atlantic (both with others and solo), the first person to fly solo from Honolulu to Oakland, and the first to make a nonstop, solo fight from Mexico City to Newark.
But she couldnt earn a living as a pilot until she was thirty, when she agreed to risk her life on a fight promoted by a brash publicist, her husband-to-be George Palmer Putnam.
Raised in Atchison, Kansas, in a world of inherited wealth and Victorian morality, she spent niost of her teens in poverty as her charming, alcoholic father moved from one job to another.
Taking fight lessons whenever she could scrape time and money together, Earhart was a threetime college dropout. She worked as a nurses aide, file clerk, truck driver, photographer, teacher, and social worker before finally bursting onto the world scene with her historic Atlantic crossing in 1928.
That fight launched Earhart on a dual career as a flghter for womens rights and a tireless crusaderperhaps the most effective activist of her timefor commercial air travel. An intensely private person, she conquered her deep aversion for publicity and crowds to become a gifted speaker and consummate fundraiser.