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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’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.
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Laurie Gwen Shapiro
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The New Yorker
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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.
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Laurie Gwen Shapiro
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The New Yorker
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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.
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Laurie Gwen Shapiro
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The New Yorker
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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.
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Laurie Gwen Shapiro
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Lapham’s Quarterly
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August 1, 2018
The Stowaway Craze
The "celebrity stowaways" of the Jazz Age reached levels of virality similar to today's social media stars.
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Laurie Gwen Shapiro
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The New Yorker
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January 8, 2018