by Candace Fleming
Fleming did a marvelous job of bringing Earhart to life, and of putting her into context. She really did manage to pull up illuminating anecdotes, like that fact that Earhart cut her hair so she looked more like a pilot, and that she curled it every night with a curling iron to give it that casual, ...
Well-designed and researched, "Amelia Lost" gives a chronology of Amelia Earhart's life, interspersed with dark gray pages that tell about her last day's flight and the days following. I'm embarrassed to admit that the explanation of radio frequencies and radio direction finders in the opening pages...
This gets my vote for best nonfiction book of the year. Seriously. Fleming manages to take a story which everyone knows and make it not only interesting, but sit on the edge of your seat gripping. A fascinating look in to Earhart’s life, her flaws, and her influence on the world at large. [Nov. 2011...
I don't usually like nonfiction all that much, not even narrative nonfiction, not even biography; I can certainly appreciate nonfiction when it's well-done, but for whatever reason, it just very, very rarely rivets me. Well, I was definitely riveted by this book. Amelia Earhart isn't someone I kne...
Another wonderful biography from Ms. Fleming, who always manages to bring her subjects vividly to life. I particularly appreciated the preface in which she discusses the challenges of sorting out facts from a life that has become so shrouded in myth, especially when Amelia Earhart herself played a b...