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Story Notes
Anne Morrow Lindbergh was born in 1906. She married Charles Lindbergh in 1929 and became a noted aviator in her own right, eventually publishing several books on the subject and receiving several aviation awards.
She obtained her glider pilot's license in 1930, becoming the first American woman to do so. She served as her husband's navigator and radio operator. In 1932, the couple's first child was kidnapped and murdered. Despite great loss, she went on to write Gift from the Sea, a nonfiction best-seller published in 1955.
She was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame, the National Women’s Hall of Fame, and the Aviation Hall of Fame of New Jersey. War Within and Without, the penultimate installment of her published diaries, received the Christopher Award in 1980. She died in 2001 at the age of ninety-four.
Produced by Celia Donoghue
Narrated by Frances Donoghue
First broadcast 1998
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