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Laurie Gwen Shapiro

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The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage that Made an American Icon
Laurie Gwen Shapiro
2025
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Amelia Earhart and her husband.

Amelia Earhart’s Reckless Final Flights

The aviator’s publicity-mad husband, George Palmer Putnam, kept pushing her to risk her life for the sake of fame.
by Laurie Gwen Shapiro via The New Yorker on June 2, 2025

The Improbable Journey of Dorothy Parker’s Ashes

After two decades in a filing cabinet and three next to a parking lot in Baltimore, the author returns to New York.
by Laurie Gwen Shapiro via The New Yorker on September 4, 2020

How a Thirteen-Year-Old Girl Smashed the Gender Divide in American High Schools

At a time when the US was divided on questions of gender, Alice de Rivera decided that she was fed up with her lousy high school.
by Laurie Gwen Shapiro via The New Yorker on January 26, 2019

The Little Mayors of the Lower East Side

Getting to know the New York City street mayors of the turn of the century.
by Laurie Gwen Shapiro via Lapham’s Quarterly on August 1, 2018

The Stowaway Craze

The "celebrity stowaways" of the Jazz Age reached levels of virality similar to today's social media stars.
by Laurie Gwen Shapiro via The New Yorker on January 8, 2018
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