Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Overview

Anne Morrow Lindbergh was born on June 22, 1906 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA. She was married to Charles A. Lindbergh. She died on February 7, 2001 in Passumpsic, Vermont, USA.

The year she married aviator Charles A. Lindbergh, she piloted her first solo flight and was the first American woman ever to earn a glider pilot's license. she and Charles explored and charted air routes between continents during the 1930s. The Lindberghs were the first to fly from Africa to South America, and explored polar air routes from North America to Asia and Europe.
Following World War II, she wrote several books, most notably "'Gift from the Sea" in 1955.
Daughter of Dwight Whitney Morrow, a lawyer, partner at J.P. Morgan Bank, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, and Senator from New Jersey.
Graduated from Smith College in 1928.
The Lindberghs' oldest child, Charles Lindbergh Jr., was kidnapped from their home outside Hopewell, NJ, on 3/1/1932. After a massive investigation, his dead body was discovered on May 12, some four miles from the Lindberghs' home. The frenzied level of press attention paid to the Lindbergh kidnapping, and subsequent trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, prompted Charles and Anne to move to England, and later to France, Switzerland, and Hawaii.

On friendship: One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life.
On solitude: Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves; that firm strand which will be the indispensable center of a whole web of human relationships.
On experience: At our age we can get rid of a lot of superficials. Vanity for one thing. We can relax in whatever is becoming and comfortable. We don't have to be "house-proud" and struggle over our possessions. Many of our duties to family, to town or country have dropped. We are freer now to do what we want. We can choose our pleasures, without guilt, be ourselves without pretense.

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