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Anne
Morrow Lindbergh, the widow of aviator and conservationist Charles
A. Lindbergh, Jr., was a noted writer and aviation pioneer.
Born June 22, 1906 in Englewood, New Jersey, Lindbergh was the
daughter of businessman, ambassador, and U.S. Senator Dwight
Morrow and poet and women's education advocate Elizabeth Cutter
Morrow. Her family spent summers at the seashore:
Martha's Vineyard, Cape Cod and later on the island of North Haven
off the coast of Maine. She received a Bachelor of Arts
degree from Smith College in 1928, and married Charles A.
Lindbergh, Jr., on May 27, 1929.
Six children were born to the Lindberghs -- Charles A., III
(deceased,
1932), Jon, Land, Anne (deceased, 1993), Scott and Reeve.
Much time during the early years of the Lindberghs' marriage was
spent flying. Anne served as her husband's co-pilot,
navigator and radio operator on history-making explorations,
charting potential air routes for commercial airlines. They made
air surveys across the continent and in the Caribbean to pioneer
Pan American's air mail service. In 1931, they journeyed, in
a single-engine airplane, over uncharted routes from Canada and
Alaska to Japan and China, which she chronicled in her first book,
North to the Orient. They then completed, in the same
single-engine Lockheed "Sirius," a
five-and-one-half-month, 30,000-mile
survey of North and South Atlantic air routes in 1933 (the subject
of Anne Lindbergh's book, Listen! the Wind). Charles
characterized this expedition as more difficult and hazardous than
his epic New York-to-Paris flight in 1927 in the "Spirit of
St. Louis."
The National Geographic Society awarded its Hubbard Gold Medal to
Anne Lindbergh in 1934 for her accomplishments in 40,000 miles of
exploratory flying over five continents with her husband. A
year earlier, she had been honored with the Cross of Honor of the
U.S. Flag Association for her part in the survey of transatlantic
air routes. In 1993, Women in Aerospace presented her with a
special Aerospace Explorer Award in recognition of her
achievements and contributions to the aerospace field.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh was also the first licensed woman glider
pilot in
the United States.
In addition to North to the Orient and Listen! the Wind, Anne
Lindbergh
is the author of 11 other published books. They include Earth
Shine, in
which she wrote of being at Cape Kennedy for the first
moon-orbiting
flight and how that Apollo 8 flight and the pictures it sent back
of
Earth gave humankind "a new sense of Earth's richness and
beauty;" The
Steep Ascent, a novel that tells the story of a perilous
flight made by
a husband and wife; the inspirational and widely read Gift from
the Sea,
perhaps her best-known work; and five volumes of diaries and
letters
from the years 1922-1944.
Smith College, Amherst College, the University of Rochester and
Gustavus Adolphus College have all presented honorary degrees to
Mrs.
Lindbergh. In addition, she has also been inducted into the
National
Aviation Hall of Fame, the National Women's Hall of Fame, and the
Aviation Hall of Fame of New Jersey. She is also a recipient
of the
Christopher Award for the fifth volume of her diaries, War
Within and
Without.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh died February 7, 2001 at her second home in
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It
takes as much courage to have tried and failed
as it does to have tried and succeeded.
Anne
Morrow Lindbergh
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