Laurie Gwen Shapiro "The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam

East End Books Ptown presents: Laurie Gwen Shapiro "The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage That Made an American Icon" 8/13 at 6pm.

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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 Award for "The Improbable Journey of Dorothy Parker's Ashes" for The New Yorker and gold medallion winner in the People Profiles category for the Silurian Press Club's 77th annual Excellence in Journalism Awards. She is the author of The Stowaway a best seller and an Indie next selection. She is an adjunct professor of journalism at The NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute in the graduate program.

"Laurie Gwen Shapiro has dug deep into the archives, and emerged with an exhilarating tale of the adventurous life of Amelia Earhart and the remarkable relationship that helped to forge her legend. Yet Shapiro goes even further--stripping away the myths and revealing something far more profound and intricate and true. The Aviator and the Showman is one terrific book."
--David Grann, New York Times bestselling author of The Wager and Killers of the Flower Moon

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