"The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words." -quoteland.com I picked Anne Morrow Lindbergh because the word Lindbergh sounded familiar I remember seeing a movie the Crime of the Century having to do with the Lindbergh case , but now after reading a brief biography I think she is an amazing figure in women’s society and the Crime of the Century is fascinating of the Lindbergh case.
Birth:
1906
Death:
February 7, 2001
Location/Birth:
Eagle wood, NJ
Parents:
(U.S. Senator) Dwight Morrow and (women’s education advocate) Mary Cutter Morrow.
Education:
She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Smith College in 1928.
Greatest Achievement:
First woman with a commercial pilots license and a private pilots license. She was also the first woman to fly a single engine airplane, over uncharted routes from Canada and Alaska to Japan and China.
Honors/awards:
She was awarded the Hubbard Gold Medal from The National Geographic Society for the 40,000 miles of exploratory with her husband over various continents in their airplane.
Anne married Charles Lindbergh, Jr., on May 27, 1929. Six children were born to the Lindberghs' their names are : Charles A., |||, Jon, Land, Anne, Scott, and Reeve. Much time during the early years of the Lindberghs'’ marriage was spent flying. Anne served as her husbands co-pilot, navigator, and radio operator on history making explorations.
Since Anne’s exploration around the world she has released two books they are called One Gift from the Sea and North to the Orient.
The Lindberghs' first child, Charles Jr., was born in the summer of 1931. The happiness of motherhood was all too swiftly followed by tragedy: on March 1, 1932, the 20-month-old Charles Lindbergh was stolen from his crib in his bedroom in the family's sprawling but isolated home in Hopewell, New Jersey. After weeks of negotiation with the kidnapper and an abortive delivery of $50,000 in ransom money, the body of the "Lindbergh baby" was found in the woods near the Lindbergh home on May 12; he had been killed shortly after the kidnapping. "The Crime of the Century," including the subsequent arrest, trial, and conviction of the carpenter Bruno Richard Hauptmann, captivated the attention of the international media for the next several years. Hauptmann was executed for the crime in 1936, still protesting his innocence.
Bibliography
1.) Lindbergh Foundation, http://www.lindberghfoundation.org, Lindbergh Foundation, © 2001
2.) Biography.com, http://www.biography.com, A&E Neworks, ©2001
3.) Encyclopedia of World Biography, Gale Research, Klipatric Louis, © 1998
4.) McHenry, Robert (ed.), Lindbergh, Anne Spencer Morrow (biography).,Her Heritage: A Biographical Encyclopedia of Famous American Women, ©12-20-1995.