Anne Spencer Lindbergh (October 2, 1940 – December 10, 1993) was an American writer, primarily of
children's novels
Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended age of the reader.
Children's ...
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She was the daughter of aviators/authors
Charles Lindbergh
Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974) was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, and activist. On May 20–21, 1927, Lindbergh made the first nonstop flight from New York City to Paris, a distance o ...
and
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh (June 22, 1906 – February 7, 2001) was an American writer and aviator. She was the wife of decorated pioneer aviator Charles Lindbergh, with whom she made many exploratory flights.
Raised in Englewood, New Jers ...
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Biography
Anne Lindbergh was raised in
Darien, Connecticut
Darien ( ) is a coastal town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. With a population of 21,499 and a land area of just under 13 square miles, it is the smallest town on Connecticut's Gold Coast. It has the youngest population of any n ...
. After studying at
Radcliffe College
Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and functioned as the female coordinate institution for the all-male Harvard College. Considered founded in 1879, it was one of the Seven Sisters colleges and he ...
for three years, she moved to Paris to continue her education, studying at the
Sorbonne
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* Sorbonne (building), historic building in Paris, which housed the University of Paris and is now shared among multiple universities.
*the University of Paris (c. 1150 – 1970)
*one of its components or linked institution, ...
. She met and married a fellow student there, Julien Feydy, who later became a political scientist and university professor. They later divorced.
She later married
Jerzy Sapieyevski
Jerzy Sapieyevski (born Jerzy Sapiejewski in Łódź, 20 March 1945), is a Polish-born pianist, composer, educator and conductor who settled in the United States in 1967.
Career
Jerzy Sapieyevski was born in Łódź and began music and engineerin ...
, a composer and conductor she met in Europe and with whom she moved to Washington. They also divorced.
She was married to
Noel Perrin
Edwin Noel Perrin (September 18, 1927 – November 21, 2004) was an American essayist and a professor at Dartmouth College, known for writing about rural life.
Early years
Perrin was born on September 18, 1927 in Manhattan and grew up in Pelham ...
, American essayist and a professor at
Dartmouth College
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, at the time of her death. They lived together in
Thetford Center, Vermont
Thetford is a town in Orange County, Vermont, United States in the Connecticut River Valley. The population was 2,775 at the 2020 census. Villages within the town include East Thetford, North Thetford, Thetford Hill, Thetford Center, Rices Mil ...
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Anne Lindbergh wrote numerous books, most of them for children.
Anne Lindbergh died of cancer in 1993 at her home in
Thetford Center, Vermont
Thetford is a town in Orange County, Vermont, United States in the Connecticut River Valley. The population was 2,775 at the 2020 census. Villages within the town include East Thetford, North Thetford, Thetford Hill, Thetford Center, Rices Mil ...
, at the age of 53.
Personal
Anne Lindbergh's eldest brother,
Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the first of six children born to Charles and Anne Lindbergh, died in 1932 in a
famous kidnapping — what many termed at the time "the crime of the century". Anne's other Lindbergh siblings are
aquanaut
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Jon Lindbergh
Jon Morrow Lindbergh (August 16, 1932 – July 29, 2021) was an American underwater diver. He worked as a United States Navy demolition expert and as a commercial diver, and was one of the world's earliest aquanauts in the 1960s. He was also ...
(1932–2021), Land Morrow Lindbergh (born 1937),
conservationist Scott Lindbergh (born 1942),
and
Reeve Lindbergh
Reeve Morrow Lindbergh (born October 2, 1945) is an American author from Caledonia County, Vermont, who grew up in Darien, Connecticut as the daughter of aviator Charles Lindbergh (19021974) and author Anne Morrow Lindbergh (19062001). She gra ...
(born 1945).
Honors, awards, distinctions
Anne Lindbergh was the recipient of numerous honors for her work, including an award from the
International Reading Association
The International Literacy Association (ILA), formerly the International Reading Association (IRA), is an international global advocacy and member professional organization that was created in 1956 to improve reading instruction, facilitate dialo ...
.
Books
This list includes all known titles at WorldCat.
* ''Osprey Island'', illustrated by Maggie Kaufman Smith (1974), as by Anne Lindbergh Feydy,
* ''The People in Pineapple Place'' (1982)
* ''Nobody's Orphan'' (1983)
* ''Bailey's Window'' (1984)
* ''The Worry Week'' (1985)
* ''The Hunky-Dory Dairy'' (1986)
* ''Next Time, Take Care'', illus. Susan Hoguet (1987), picture book
* ''The Shadow on the Dial'' (1987)
* ''The Prisoner of Pineapple Place'' (1988), sequel to ''The People''
* ''Tidy Lady'', illus. Susan Hoguet (1989), picture book
* ''Three Lives to Live'' (1992)
* ''Travel Far, Pay No Fare'' (1992)
* ''Nick of Time'' (1994), posthumous publication
* ''Local Vertical: Poems'' (2000)
* ''The Inside Story on Henry Alcebiades Highfllie'' (2004), stories privately printed by David R. Godine
References
External links
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1940 births
1993 deaths
American children's writers
People from Thetford, Vermont
Charles Lindbergh
20th-century American women writers