How accurate is the book the aviator's wife

It includes interesting imagined first person takes on the. Its a sense of familiarity combined with a discovery, because i want to know more about this person. This book had me from the first word, it is well written, the characters are defined in such a way i felt i knew them. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Its amazing how the media acted with this couple way back then. This novel is a superb example of how wellcrafted historical fiction can bring people and events from the past to life in a vivid and. It is a fictionalized account of the life of anne morrow lindbergh, an accomplished writer and aviator in her own right, though she often lived in the shadow of her husband, aviation pioneer charles lindbergh. The book shows how anne morrow and charles lindbergh first met when lindbergh was visiting mexico city where annes father was serving as. The aviators wife by melanie benjamin delacorte press anne morrow lindbergh and her aviator husband, charles, attracted attention on an order comparable to that garnered by princess diana. The book we are talking about today is the aviators wife 20 by. I vaguely remember hearing some buzz about this book a few years back, but, like so many books i intend to investigate, this one fell off my radar and i actually forgot all about it. Melanie benjamin on her novel the aviators wife, about. I blushed, not sure if this was a compliment, choosing to think it might be. The aviators wife by melanie benjamin is a 20 delacorte press publication.

The aviators wife is a historical novel by american author melanie benjamin, first published in 20 by delacorte press. This book is currently on all the major best seller lists, has garner. For much of her life, anne morrow, the shy daughter of the u. A fictionalized account of the life of anne morrow lindbergh, the aviators wife reads so much like a memoir that i turned to wikipedia several times to determine where the history ends and the novel begins.

Her newest book, the aviators wife, follows the life of anne morrow lindbergh, wife of the multifaceted aviator charles lindbergh. Benjamin writes in an authors note that while the basic timeline of the book is accurate, her. Like many of his films, it deals with the everevolving love lives of a group of young parisians. The aviators wife by melanie benjamin imagines life. Somehow knowing whats going to happen just makes the story all the more suspenseful. The film stars phillippe marlaud, marie riviere and annelaure meury. If youre an anne morrow lindberg fan, youll be glued to the page. The aviators wife melanie benjamin, 20 random house 416 pp.

If youre an anne morrow lindberg fan, youll be glued to the page and admire annes resilience and courage even more as the strong woman behind the public image is brought to life. The aviators wife is an engaging novel, less so for the portrayal of annes often overwrought emotional journey than for its inherently fascinating record of all things lindbergh. In the spirit of loving frank and the paris wife, acclaimed novelist melanie benjamin pulls back the curtain on the marriage of one of americas most extraordinary couples. As a women, as a mother, as a wife i related to it in ways too innumerable to recount. The aviators wife is it ok for a historical fiction book to change the. Ms benjamin has struck gold with the aviators wife. Melanie benjamin has a novel focus chicago tribune.