Laurie Gwen Shapiro

Laurie Gwen Shapiro’s biography of Amelia Earhart will be published next year by Viking Books. She is an adjunct professor of journalism at NYU, and the 2022 winner of the Silurian Press Club’s People Profile award for her New York Times profile on World War II pilot Si Spiegel.

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How Amelia Earhart Just Turned Up in the Halls of Congress

It was a long and arduous journey, but Earhart just became the 11th woman to join the pantheon of 100 statues allowed in the U.S. Capitol.

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the great vanishing

The Amelia Earhart Kimono That Spikes a Racist Legend

The kimono helped launch an unkillable conspiracy theory that the Japanese kidnapped Earhart. The garment hasn’t been seen for decades—until now.

Laurie Gwen Shapiro

Booze Cruise

Admiral Byrd’s Secretly Boozy Expedition to Antarctica

How the famous explorer and his crew drank their way through their Prohibition-era adventure.

Laurie Gwen Shapiro