@lauriestories.bsky.social
author, journalist, documentary director - - Amelia Earhart's biographer
🚨 Registration is open!
Date: Thursday, Oct 9.
Time: 6:00–8:00pm EDT
Location: 20 Cooper Square, Room 7C
I'll be at Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at NYU for a lively conversation between me & Daniel Zalewski, esteemed Features Director of The New Yorker. He is the best in the business.
Amazing read.
02.10.2025 18:31 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
My very first piece for @theatlantic.com
My first piece for @theatlantic.com
“…Earhart’s 1937 disappearance has been fertile ground for speculation: pulp stories, Hollywood films, and best-selling books that turned a tragic...”
#theaviatorandtheahowman #ameliaearhart @vikingbooks.bsky.social
Excited! Well seeing this piece inspired by my book on the front page of the Sunday Times Real Sstate section made my morning! Nothing like print.
20.09.2025 13:52 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
I loved this new piece on my Amelia Earhart book, The Aviator and the Showman by Jennifer Ouelette at @arstechnica.com
17.09.2025 13:43 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Shoutout to @lauriestories.bsky.social as I've recently read her very fine "The Aviator and the Showman" which covers the marriage of Amelia Earhart & George Putnam in great depth. Ms. Shapiro, your work gives me some new tour points as a docent at NASM. Thanks for your thorough research. 1/3
15.09.2025 16:27 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
“The Aviator and the Showman,” Ms. Shapiro’s intriguing new double biography of Earhart and George Palmer Putnam..."
The New York Times story, inspired by my book, will eventually be in print in the Streetscapes section in the Real Estate section - but here's an early online version!
PICK FLICK!
Boston! Sept 25, 6 PM at East End Books Seaport. I’ll be talking Amelia Erhat and The Aviator and the Showman with Tom Perrotta (Election, Little Children, The Leftovers, Mrs. Fletcher, Tracy Flick Can’t Win).
Come by!It'll be smart, funny, maybe a little uncomfortable!
Cover of Laurie Gwen Shapiro's "The Aviator and The Showman". Subtitle: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the marriage that made an American icon. Vertically formatted grayscale images showing Amelia on the left, George on the right.
Ahoy, @lauriestories.bsky.social, my esteemed county librarian has just lent this to me. The queue is pretty active (3 copies in circulation, 14 folks waiting.) I'll get into it tonight & check back in a few days.
05.09.2025 23:08 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
I owe a few people books! Just sent a copy of The Aviator and the Showman to Franklin Delano Roosevelt III — grandson of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and one of my sources.
Grateful for voices like his that helped bring this story to life.
🚨 EVENT STATUS UPDATE 🚨
The free event I posted earlier—me chatting with the incredible journalist & author Patrick Radden Keefe—just flipped from Going Fast to FEW TICKETS LEFT.
The National Arts Club, NYC * Tues, Sept 30
* 6:30 PM
@praddenkeefe.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.com/e/author-lau...
Just finished @lauriestories.bsky.social's "The Aviator and the Showman," a vivid and beautifully told account of Amelia Earhart, her book publisher husband, and her groundbreaking flights. Loved it. Highly recommended.
29.08.2025 23:22 — 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
My latest read- first time for @airmail.news
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Thank you so much @lukeepplin.bsky.social - means a lot.
30.08.2025 13:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🚨 This one’s going fast. 🚨
Posted a few days ago & already marked GOING FAST (& not even promoted yet to NAC members).
Sept 30 • 6:30 PM
Free!
National Arts Club, NYC
In conversation w/ Patrick Radden Keefe
@praddenkeefe.bsky.social @vikingbooks.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.com/e/author-lau...
Frank McCourt would have been 95 today. My mentor, my high school English teacher, my friend. I first met him at 15. I was lucky enough to travel to Ireland with him and the McCourt brothers on films — a memory I’ll hold forever. It only takes one teacher to believe in you. He changed my life.
20.08.2025 01:08 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
This is a fabulous podcast~ Loved being a guest.
"One of the books of the year! - Laurie gives you the whole story." @historynerdsunite.bsky.social
Thrilled to have my first piece for @smithsonianmag.bsky.social
Amelia Earhart Vega is back in DC at the Air & Space Museum! Go! Also in story is a cameo by a historic votive copy of the Vega long forgotten & in a very small off the beaten path museum.
www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...
Southern California—you made me an indie bestseller!
The book just landed on the SCIBA bestseller list. I’m beyond grateful to every bookseller who’s put it into a reader’s hands.
#IndieBestseller #SCIBA #TheAviatorAndTheShowman #ThankYouBooksellers #NarrativeNonfiction #AmeliaEarhart
Happy pub day to @lauriestories.bsky.social! Picking up my copy at Books Are Magic today.
15.07.2025 12:55 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
“Shapiro reveals in painstaking detail... reckless and publicity-seeking adventures... thanks to the near-depraved ambitions of her husband.” —NYT Book Review
Thrilled to see The Aviator and the Showman so positively featured.
📖 And yeah book out today!
🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/b...
The cover of Larie Gwen Shaporo's new book, The Aviator and the Showman about Amelia Earhart and George Putnam. The book is released in the USA today.
Happy publication day to @lauriestories.bsky.social for The Aviator and the Showman! Laurie's look at Amelia Earhart and George Putnam is getting rave reviews, and it was a delight to chat about the book. Check out our chat on our YouTube channel or where you get your podcasts.
youtu.be/VJWrnjvzW98
This biography of Amelia Earhart was complex, scintillating and delicious. Loved it!
14.07.2025 22:10 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
he Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage that Made and America Icon in a fine story by
@raquellaneri.bsky.social
in the New York Post
@newyorkpost.bsky.social
- will go to my corner bodega and get a copy.
@vikingbooks.bsky.social
nypost.com/2025/07/12/l...
so grateful for this glowing review from @hamiltoncain.bsky.social at @latimes.com
11.07.2025 12:41 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
If you have an hour ... loved appearing on The Aviation Show - this is a YouTube link!
Loved talking to Matt. F
#theaviatorandtheshowman #lauriegwenshapiro #ameliaearhart @vikingbooks.bsky.social @theaviation.show
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJWr...
Our next episode is live now for all full Patreon People! @lauriestories.bsky.social joins us to chat all things Amelia Earhart, her marriage to George Putnam and some of the factors that made Amelia's last flight so important to the couple.
Join us here: www.patreon.com/theaviationshow
Email update I got from The NY Times! 😍
30.06.2025 23:23 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
20 Books Coming in July via The New York Times
Twisty summer thrillers, magical romances, a true story of a marriage pushed to the brink and more.
The Aviator and the Showman @vikingbooks.bsky.social @nytimes.com
Went downstairs to my neighbor @madaecnerwal.bsky.social, who also was my photo clearance magician for The Aviator and the Showman.
I only have one copy of the book out July 15 right now, so I couldn’t hand it over (soon, Adam)—but I wanted him to see how beautifully the photo section turned out.
