The aviator’s publicity-mad husband, George Palmer Putnam, kept pushing her to risk her life for the sake of fame.

Amelia Earhart strides in front of her Lockheed Electra, the plane in which she disappeared in July 1937 while attempting to become the first woman to fly around the world. Alamy Stock Photo ...

The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage That Made an American Icon Laurie Gwen Shapiro. Viking, $35 (512p) ISBN 978-0-593-29590-8 ...

Earhart, in a hangar in California, with the Lockheed Electra 10-E plane that she piloted in her two round-the-world attempts. Photograph from Bettmann / Getty Amelia Earhart’s Reckless Final ...

Kathleen, of Oldtown, Letterkenny, passed away peacefully at the Donegal Hospice earlier this week. Requiem Mass took place ...

It was Amelia Earhart who helped start the first Women’s Air Derby in 1929, the same year she started the ’99’s’ pilot ...

"Fuel is good." "Master switch coming on." "Brakes are held." "Avionics are on." "Can we request 22 Right for 39 Whiskey?" ...

Anne Akiko Meyers is on a mission to bring new music to the world. The ambitious violinist has an insatiable appetite for new ...

Around the World in 36 Minutes With Laurie Anderson. Her new album brings Amelia Earhart’s tragic final flight to life. By Sara Curtis, Frannie Carr Toth, Wendy Dorr, Jon Pareles and Pat McCusker ...

So, here's a compilation of 50 famous people who were murdered, died during sex or in a freak accident, vanished without a ...

On Aug. 9, 1969, the 8-months-pregnant Tate and her friends — Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger, and Wojciech Frykowski — were at ...