Amelia Earhart

Fiction

The romantic, tragic and mysterious story of Amelia Earhart has spurred the imaginations of many writers. Stories featuring her have ranged from straightforward biographies to true flights of fantasy. For example:

• I Was Amelia Earhart is a faux autobiography by Jane Mendelsohn in which "Earhart" tells the story of what happened to her in 1937, complete with heavy doses of romance with her co-pilot.
• Flying Blind by Max Allan Collins is a detective novel in which the intrepid Nathan Heller is hired to be a bodyguard for Amelia Earhart. Before long they become lovers, and later Heller helps her to try and escape from the Japanese following her ill-fated flight.
• The Star Trek: Voyager episode, "The 37s", suggests that Earhart and Noonan were kidnapped by aliens in 1937 and taken to the Delta Quadrant, where they were found by Captain Kathryn Janeway but chose to remain on the far side of the galaxy instead of returning to Earth. (Star Trek also established that one of Starfleet's main space stations is named after Earhart.)
• The 1943 Rosalind Russell film Flight for Freedom was a fictionalized treatment of Earhart's life, with a heavy dose of Hollywood World War II propaganda.

Bibliography

• Briand, Paul, Daughter of the Sky. New York: Duell, Sloan, Pearce, 1960.
• Butler, Susan, East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart. Reading MA: Addison-Wesley, 1997.
• Devine, Thomas E., Eyewitness: The Amelia Earhart Incident. Frederick, CO: Renaissance House, 1987.
• Goerner, Fred, The Search for Amelia Earhart. New York: Doubleday, 1966.
• Long, Elgen M., Amelia Earhart: The Mystery Solved. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.
• Loomis, Vincent V., Amelia Earhart, the Final Story. New York: Random House, 1985.
• Lovell, Mary S., The Sound of Wings. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989.
• Rich, Doris L., Amelia Earhart: A Biography. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.
• Strippel, Dick., Amelia Earhart - The Myth and the Reality. New York: Exposition Press, 1972.

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