Question: Who wrote the book of the musical inspired by Charles Lindbergh's rival?
Context: Lindbergh High School is a (senior) high school located in the southeastern section of Renton, Washington, a suburb of Seattle, in the Renton School District.  It is named after Charles A. Lindbergh, the famous aviator who was first to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1927.  The school was founded in 1972.  Freshmen, sophomores and juniors attended the first year, making the class of 1974 the first to graduate.  Lindbergh's school motto is "ad astra", which is Latin for "to the stars".  The crest features the Spirit of St. Louis (the plane that Charles Lindbergh flew), and the school's motto flanked by stars with the dates 1927 and 1972, respectively. Little Falls is a city in Morrison County, Minnesota, United States, near the geographic center of the state.  Established in 1848, Little Falls is one of the oldest cities in Minnesota.  It is the county seat of Morrison County.  The population was 8,343 at the 2010 census.  Little Falls is the location of the boyhood home of Charles Lindbergh.  Just across from the home is Charles A. Lindbergh State Park, named after Lindbergh's father, prominent Minnesota lawyer and U.S. Congressman Charles August Lindbergh. Charles Eugène Jules Marie Nungesser, MC (15 March 1892 – presumably on or after 8 May 1927) was a French ace pilot and adventurer, best remembered as a rival of Charles Lindbergh.  Nungesser was a renowned ace in France, ranking third highest in the country with 43 air combat victories during World War I. Take Flight is a musical with book by John Weidman, music by David Shire and lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr..  The musical is inspired by the early history of aviation, interweaving the lives of the Wright Brothers, Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart and her publisher George Putnam, along with such sundry luminaries as Otto Lilienthal, the German "Glider King"; Commander Richard Byrd; French flying aces Nungesser and Coli, and various others. The Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History, also known as the Lindbergh Chair, is a one-year senior fellowship hosted by the U.S. National Air and Space Museum (NASM), to assist a scholar in the research and composition of a book about aerospace history.  Named for the famous aviator Charles Lindbergh, the position is competitive: one experienced scholar is selected each year from multiple applicants worldwide.  Up to $100,000 is granted to the winner. Old Smokey is a euphemistic name given to the state prison electric chair in New Jersey, which is on display at the New Jersey State Police Museum.  The chair's most notorious victim was Richard Hauptmann, the man executed in the chair after being found guilty of abducting and killing Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr. in 1932, the 20-month-old son of famous aviators Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh "(see Lindbergh kidnapping)". Following the historic Lindbergh kidnapping (the abduction and murder of Charles Lindbergh's toddler son), the United States Congress adopted a federal kidnapping statute—known as the Federal Kidnapping Act  /1201 § 1201  (a)(1) (popularly known as the Lindbergh Law, or Little Lindbergh Law)—which was intended to let federal authorities step in and pursue kidnappers once they had crossed state lines with their victim.  The Act became law in 1932. Listen!  The Wind is a 1938 book by the American writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh.  It tells the story of Lindbergh's and her husband Charles Lindbergh's 1933 flight from Africa to South America across the Atlantic Ocean.  The book focuses on the last ten days of the flight, when weather conditions and illness caused trouble for the couple.  The book has a foreword and map drawings by Charles Lindbergh. The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh is a short film made in 1984 by Orson Welles.  The film was intended as a private video letter from Welles to his longtime friend and accountant Bill Cronshaw, who was ill.  In the film, Welles sits behind a typewriter at his desk and speaks of the human spirit, quoting the journal of aviator Charles Lindbergh.  Welles was in visibly poor health himself when the film was made, and he did not intend for it to be seen by the public. Charles A. Lindbergh State Park is a 569-acre (2.3 km²) Minnesota state park on the outskirts of Little Falls.  The park was once the farm of Congressman Charles August Lindbergh and his son Charles Lindbergh, the famous aviator.  Their restored 1906 house and two other farm buildings are within the park boundaries.  The house, a National Historic Landmark, and an adjacent museum are operated by the Minnesota Historical Society.  Three buildings and three structures built by the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s were named to the National Register of Historic Places.  These buildings include a picnic shelter and a water tower, built in the Rustic Style from local stone and logs, and have remained relatively unchanged since construction.  Although the property includes shoreline on the Mississippi River, the Lindbergh family requested that the park not include intensive use areas for swimming or camping, so development was kept to a minimum.
Answer: John Weidman