Laurie Gwen Shapiro
@LaurieStories
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The Aviator & The Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage that Made an American Icon. Viking Books-2025
Joined January 2010
So thrilled for this @NPR !
@richardosman @TrishaSakhlecha @GeraldineBrooks NPR's Books We Love: ⭐ UNSHRUNK by @LauraDelano ⭐ LOVED ONE by Aisha Muharrar ⭐ THE AVIATOR AND THE SHOWMAN by @LaurieStories
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At 6 pm I will be on @cspan @BookTV , live from the @MiamiBookFair , talking about The Aviator and the Showman & the long, strange partnership of Amelia Earharta& George Palmer Putnam. @VikingBooks So Grateful to be one of the few they are interviewing for television. 🙏
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An appearance on Aussie News this morning (their evening) talking Amelia Earhart. #ameliaearhart
https://t.co/XyNcZSveGO
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Congratulations to THE AVIATOR AND THE SHOWMAN by @lauriestories, named one of Amazon's Best Biographies & Memoirs of 2025!
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Scott Simon’s Open Book: Laurie Gwen Shapiro joins us to talk about THE AVIATOR AND THE SHOWMAN—AMELIA EARHART, GEORGE PUTNAM, AND THE MARRIAGE THAT MADE AN AMERICAN ICON
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Our Open Book w/ @LaurieStories on her THE AVIATOR AND THE SHOWMAN. Amelia Earhart and George Putnam (who didn't deserve her...) 6:15 pm et 3:15 pm pt live on @SubstackInc RTd @X
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loved this terrific evening
Celebrating new📚by @Lafayettewrite (THE PERILS OF GIRLHOOD) Jiwon Choi (A TEMPORARY DWELLING) @victorpineiro (THE ISLAND OF FORGOTTEN GODS) @ClarenceAHaynes (THE GHOSTS OF GWENDOLYN MONTGOMERY) @DavidMargolick (WHEN CAESAR WAS KING) @LaurieStories (THE AVIATOR & THE SHOWMAN)
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I am the latest guest on THE BOWERY BOYS, my favorite podcast. Dreams come true! Talking about Amelia Earhart, natch. @BoweryBoys
https://t.co/ZYvLdlOXKq
boweryboyshistory.com
The aviation hero Amelia Earhart, who became one of the world’s most famous women during the Great Depression, is one of those historic figures that people think they know quite well. But during her...
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We had a wonderful unveiling for our 27th plaque honoring trailblazing aviator Amelia Earhart at her former home at @Greenwich_House with @LaurieStories. Check out the video, photos, and info on all our historic plaques: https://t.co/BWpJSECCml
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Oh boy, as Jonathan Petropoulos writes in his book Goring's Man in Paris,we know that Monuments Man Ted Rousseau, Met Museum's curator of Europ paintings was meeting postwar w/ known Nazi looters, incl Bruno Lohse Rose Valland's nemesis during & after
nytimes.com
The museum says it had no idea at the time, but the heirs say the Met curator who bought and sold the work, a former U.S. Army specialist on looting, should have known better.
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Amelia Earhart fans ! New York City History fans! Here’s something really different! on December 9. I’ll be leaving at one time only Amelia Earhart in NYC walking tour for @UntappedNY with their chief experience officer - only 20 spots -
untappedcities.com
Uncover the New York City haunts of America's iconic 1920s/1930s aviator on this one-time, special edition tour!
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FINAL call for this! Learn how my book got excerpted & material is fact-checked at The New Yorker from the Features Director. Thurs, Oct 9 -6 - 8pm EDT 20 Cooper Sq Room: 7C For the NYU journalism school, but also open to public via RSVP and ID.
events.nyu.edu
Join us for a special evening as The New Yorker’s Features Director Daniel Zalewski (NYU Journalism alum) sits down with narrative nonfiction aut...
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Bravo to @Reagan_Airport for this display. We had a great History Camp Author Discussion a few weeks ago with Laurie Gwen Shapiro on her new book on Earhart and her husband George Putnam.
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Conspiracy theories about Amelia Earhart persist because "mystery sells far better than tragedy," @LaurieStories writes. But we should "remember the life she led, not just the myth she left behind": https://t.co/Wh7B3PmuDZ
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Conspiracy theories about Amelia Earhart persist because "mystery sells far better than tragedy," @LaurieStories writes. But we should "remember the life she led, not just the myth she left behind":
theatlantic.com
Conspiracy theories about her disappearance do a disservice to the pilot’s remarkable, flawed legacy.
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My story!
Conspiracy theories about Amelia Earhart persist because "mystery sells far better than tragedy," @LaurieStories writes. But we should "remember the life she led, not just the myth she left behind":
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Gift link for my first piece for @TheAtlantic
https://t.co/Dp7pKfS2cr
theatlantic.com
Conspiracy theories about her disappearance do a disservice to the pilot’s remarkable, flawed legacy.
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New Lit NYC podcast, with @LaurieStories discussing her deep dive into Amelia Earhart, and how her messy marriage to a shady NYC character helped her get cast as America’s "aviatrix’ in what was in a sense the first reality TV show.
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LISTEN: The It Girl of the Air and Her Messy New York Marriage https://t.co/iLmWlgQf1k via @THECITYNY
thecity.nyc
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Just woke up to the best kind of email: my friend Stephen Marmon let me know that the Streetscapes story by the gifted @JohnFreemanGill (inspired by my Amelia Earhart book The Aviator and the Showman—is on the front page of today’s New York Times Real Estate section!
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