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Adult Books - Nonfiction - Technology
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East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart.
Butler, Susan (author).
Nov. 1997. 528p. Addison Wesley, hardcover, $27.50 (0-201-31144-5). 629.13.
REVIEW.
First published October 15, 1997 (Booklist).
Susan Butler spent 10 years researching and writing this biography, which marks the centennial of Amelia Earhart’s birth. Although Earhart’s life has been documented on television and in other books, Butler was allowed access to family diaries and discovered an unpublished biography by a close friend. Following Earhart’s 1938 disappearance during her attempt to become the first woman to fly around the world, rumors circulated that she had been assigned a secret spy mission and was captured and tortured by the Japanese. Fukiko Aoki, who became the Japanese bureau chief for Newsweek in 1984, investigated this rumor as extensively as possible. Because nothing of what Aoki wrote was ever translated into English, her conclusions--that the plane carrying Earhart and her navigator must have sunk to the bottom of the sea--received scant attention outside Japan. With its inclusion here, Butler hopes to put to rest all lingering doubts. (Reviewed October 15, 1997)— Jennifer Henderson
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