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Laurie Gwen Shapiro

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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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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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