Bring Me a Unicorn: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1922-1928

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972 - Biography & Autobiography - 236 pages

"A combination of diary entries and letters which shape into a continuous autobiography. These have all the immediacy of the actual experience. At a very early age, Anne Morrow ... faithfully recorded in her diary the significant impressions and telling events of her life and their emotional impact upon her. She also corresponded warmly and at length with her mother, sisters, and other family members. From this wealth of material, [this] volume draws a vivid picture of Anne Lindbergh's formative years ... The volume culminates in the momentous 1927 Christmas vacation in Mexico, where her father, Dwight Morrow, was ambassador. At the United States Embassy she first meets Charles Lindbergh ... He instantly captured her imagination and radically changed her outlook ... The development of their relationship is closely and movingly linked to the newly discovered world of flying, with the sky as backdrop for an extraordinary courtship. The self-doubting, tremulously shy young girl grows into a clear-sighted and courageous woman of captivating charm, humor, and spirit"--Jacket flaps

Contents

• Section 1: 3
• Section 2: 11
• Section 3: 15

About the author

Anne Morrow Linbergh, 1906-2001 Anne Morrow Lindbergh was born Anne Spencer Morrow on June 22, 1906 in Englewood New Jersey. Her father was a multimillionaire banker with the firm J.P.Morgan and Co., who would later become a senator for New Jersey. Her mother was an educator and poet who held the position of acting president of Smith College from 1939-1940. Anne Morrow attended Miss Chapin's School in Manhattan and graduated Smith College in 1928. She is best known for penning over two dozen books of prose and poetry, including five diaries of her tumultuous life. Lindbergh married the famous Charles Lindbergh in 1929 and was introduced to the real world through his fame. Her childhood had been a sheltered one, yet she thrived in this new lifestyle. In 1930, she became the first woman to receive a glider pilot's license in the United States. That same year she accompanied her husband as copilot and navigator, when he broke the transatlantic speed record. In 1939 she earned the prestigious Hubbard Gold Medal of the National Geographic Society, becoming the first woman ever to do so. Ironically, Anne Lindbergh is best known not for her literary prowess, but for the kidnapping and death of her first born son, Charles Jr.. Known as the Crime of the Century, the Lindberghs gained an enormous amount of public recognition in the wake of the brutal murder. Lindbergh would never be the same for the incident. In 1935, Lindbergh published her first book, which also became her first best seller. While sometimes criticized by the literary world, Lindbergh remained popular with the public, females in particular, until her death. Perhaps her most famous book, "Gift from the Sea", a philosophical meditation on women's lives, was an inspiration to those same women. Because of her sympathy to the plight of the every day woman, and their returned sympathy for her own tragedy, Lindbergh was voted one of the 10 most admired women of 1975 by readers of Good Housekeeping. Her later works, which included the somewhat questionable "The Wave of the Future" was placed under greater criticisms, yet survived as another example of her involvement in world events, as they touch home. Anne Morrow Lindbergh died at the age of 94 at her home in Passumpsic, Vermont.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Bring Me a Unicorn: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1922-1928; Helen and Kurt Wolff book; Signet Non - Fiction; Issue 5352 of Signet book
• Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972
• Original from: Pennsylvania State University
• Digitized: Jul 15, 2009
• ISBN: 0451084470, 9780451084477
• Length: 236 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures; Fiction / General; Fiction / Literary