# Event Details - **Event Name**: Laurie Gwen Shapiro: "The Aviator and the Showman" - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 03 Dec, 2025 at 07:00 pm – Wed, 03 Dec, 2025 at 08:00 pm - **Event Description**: Join us for an evening with author Laurie Gwen Shapiro.About this EventIn 1928, a young social worker and hobby pilot named Amelia Earhart arrived in the office of George Putnam, heir to the Putnam & Sons throne and hitmaker, on the hunt for the right woman for a secret flying mission across the Atlantic. A partnership—professional and soon otherwise—was born.The Aviator and the Showman unveils the untold story of Amelia’s decade-long marriage to George Putnam, offering an intimate exploration of their relationship and the pivotal role it played in her enduring legacy. Despite her outwardly modest and humble image, Amelia was fiercely driven and impossibly brave, a lifelong feminist and trailblazer in her personal and professional life. Putnam, the so-called “PT Barnum of publishing” was a bookselling visionary—but often pushed his authors to extreme lengths in the name of publicity, and no one bore that weight more than Amelia. Their ahead-of-its time partnership supported her grand ambitions—but also pressed her into more and more treacherous stunts to promote her books, influencing a certain recklessness up to and including her final flight.Earhart is a captivating figure to many, but the truth about her life is often overshadowed by myth and legend. In this cinematic new account, Laurie Gwen Shapiro emphasizes Earhart’s multifaceted human side, her struggles, and her authentic aspirations, the truths behind her brave pursuits and the compromises she made to fit into societal expectations. Drawing from a trove of new sources including undiscovered audio interviews, The Aviator and the Showman is a gripping and passionate tale of adventure, colorful characters, hubris, and a complex and a vivid portrait of a marriage that shaped the trajectory of an iconic life.About the Author:Laurie Gwen Shapiro is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and journalist whose writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York, The Daily Beast, Slate, and others. Shapiro is the 2021 winner of the Damn History Article Award for her New Yorker piece “The Improbable Journey of Dorothy Parker’s Ashes” and a gold medallion winner in the People Profiles category for the Silurians Press Club’s seventy-seventh annual Excellence in Journalism Awards. She is the author of The Stowaway, a bestseller and an Indie Next selection. She is an adjunct professor at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute in the graduate program.About the Program:Doors will open to registered attendees at 6 pm.A local bookseller will be on-site and have books available for purchase.Free parking vouchers are available to program attendees who park at the Franklin Street Garage (15 W. Franklin Street) after 4pm. Ask Pratt event staff for your parking voucher prior to or after the program.There is no registration required for virtual attendance, simply visit the Enoch Pratt Free Library's Facebook or Youtube page. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/baltimore/laurie-gwen-shapiro-the-aviator-and-the-showman/100001660725758449 - **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art, fine-arts, trips-adventures - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Flaurie-gwen-shapiro-the-aviator-and-the-showman-tickets-1660725758449 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Baltimore - **state**: MD - **country**: United States - **location**: Enoch Pratt Free Library - **lat**: 39.294555 - **long**: -76.617217 - **full address**: Enoch Pratt Free Library, 400 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, United States ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: Enoch Pratt Free Library (https://allevents.in/org/enoch-pratt-free-library/17788288) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/cd09dd2c4a4a8e909986e584626b17027df0864d93cd0520792e8c0ab395f7aa-rimg-w1200-h600-dc9fd1cd-gmir.jpg?v=1757235841 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/680948e61fbecd256d8794f5b06f1216aaf77ee3bdc0573aacfac89e46449fd2-rimg-w400-h400-dcfffffe-gmir.jpg?v=1757235840 ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? - **A:** Wed, 03 Dec, 2025 at 07:00 pm - **Q**: Where is the event happening? - **A:** Enoch Pratt Free Library, 400 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, United States - **Q**: What is the ticket price? - **A:** starting from 0 up to 0 USD - **Q**: Who is organizing the event? - **A:** Enoch Pratt Free Library - **Q**: What type of event is this? - **A:** Art, literary-art, fine-arts, trips-adventures - **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Laurie Gwen Shapiro: "The Aviator and the Showman" ? - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Laurie Gwen Shapiro: "The Aviator and the Showman"", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/cd09dd2c4a4a8e909986e584626b17027df0864d93cd0520792e8c0ab395f7aa-rimg-w1200-h600-dc9fd1cd-gmir.jpg?v=1757235841", "startDate": "2025-12-03", "endDate": "2025-12-03", "url": "https://allevents.in/baltimore/laurie-gwen-shapiro-the-aviator-and-the-showman/100001660725758449", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Enoch Pratt Free Library", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "400 Cathedral Street", "postalCode": "21201", "addressLocality": "Baltimore", "addressRegion": "MD", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "39.294555", "longitude": "-76.617217" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Join us for an evening with author Laurie Gwen Shapiro.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-05", "availabilityEnds": "2025-12-03", "validFrom": "2026-04-05", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/baltimore/laurie-gwen-shapiro-the-aviator-and-the-showman/100001660725758449" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-05", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-05", "url": "https://allevents.in/baltimore/laurie-gwen-shapiro-the-aviator-and-the-showman/100001660725758449", "price": 0, "name": "In-Person Attendance" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Enoch Pratt Free Library", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/enoch-pratt-free-library/17788288", "description": "We serve the residents of Baltimore with locations throughout the city, and the residents of Maryland as the State Library Resource Center.\r\nOur mission is \"to provide equal access to information, services, and opportunities that empower, enrich, and enhance the quality of life for all.\"" } ] } ] ```