A new biography on Amelia Earhart examines her sometimes tumultuous relationship with her husband, George Putnam. An ...

She was a superstar, the most famous woman in the world. She was a pilot, “it” girl, author, adventurer, fashion designer, ...

The Aviator and the Showman,' Laurie Gwen Shapiro's vibrant account of Amelia Earhart's union with a publicity-seeking ...

Up,” F. Scott Fitzgerald declared, people “thought of their old best dreams. Maybe there was a way out by flying, maybe our ...

In “The Aviator and the Showman,” Laurie Gwen Shapiro tells the story of the doomed pilot’s marriage to “the publishing world’s P.T. Barnum.” ...

Sex, violent death, and mystery. If your life has one of these things, people might be interested. If it has two, now you’re tabloid fodder. If it has three, you’re Amelia Earhart.” ...

On the 88th anniversary of Amelia Earhart's disappearance, Purdue University announced a joint expedition to locate the pioneer's long lost plane.

An excerpt of “The Aviator and the Showman,” a new book by Laurie Gwen Shapiro about the marriage between Amelia Earhart and George Palmer Putnam and her attempt to fly around the world with ...

Learn about Earhart's life from her childhood spent roaming the outdoors, to her first flying lessons, to her disappearence over the Pacific in 1937.

Eighty-eight years have passed since Amelia Earhart vanished into legend, her silver Lockheed Electra disappearing somewhere ...

The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage That Made an American Icon Laurie Gwen Shapiro. Viking, $35 (512p) ISBN 978-0-593-29590-8 ...

A sonar image suspected of showing the remains of the plane of Amelia Earhart has turned out to be a rock formation.