num_pages: 344
description: 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.
language: English
title: Amelia Earhart: A Biography
titlecomplete: Amelia Earhart: A Biography
characters: Amelia Earhart
genres: 20th Century, Biography, History, American History, Historical, Womens, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 245
publisher: Smithsonian Books