Amelia Earhart: A Biography

By Doris L. Rich

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
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Release date: Jul 9, 2013
• ISBN: 9781588343826

Reviews for Amelia Earhart

[xuebi-1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A relatively detailed biography that follows sequentially the events in Amelia Earhart's life. Rich did cover well the early-twentieth century aviation scene in America, and Earhart's contribution to it; not only that, but Rich dealt with Earhart objectively and dispels much of the myths surrounding the ill-fated aviatrix. The only complaint would be that a more detailed epilogue and some critical evaluation could have been added.

[athaena_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A good overview of Amelia Earhart's life and career. The only issue I took with the book was the bits that just seemed to list her lecture itineraries - although this does serve to show how very busy she was - overall a good read though.