VERY FEW SEATS left for this free event open to public Sept 30 at NYC's The National Arts Club. Grab now! eventbrite.com/e/author-lauri…

I'm following this looted story almost like the Titan explosion! Truly incredible so far: buff.ly/7lghFya

“Mrs. Roosevelt, would you like a ride over Washington tonight?” trib.al/ULpBKHI

I owe a few people books! Just sent a copy of The Aviator and the Showman to Franklin Delano Roosevelt III — grandson of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and one of my sources! Grateful for voices like his that helped bring this story to life.

Update - I was just asked to say a few words on this occasion by his family - moved me to tears. Won't you join Malachy McCourt's family and friends? Could you put it in your calendar? Malachy McCourt Siobhan McCourt

A fine Times "Streetscapes" article on Amelia Earhart's NY inspired by book The Aviator and the Showman by John Freeman Gill - an early online version! Viking Books nytimes.com/2025/09/09/rea…

A great new #ameliaearhart article by John Freeman Gill in the The New York Times inspired by The Aviator and the Showman - here it is unlocked - nytimes.com/2025/09/09/rea…

A particularly good piece on my book The Aviator and the Showman at Ars Technica arstechnica.com/culture/2025/0…

Just woke up to the best kind of email: my friend Stephen Marmon let me know that the Streetscapes story by the gifted John Freeman Gill (inspired by my Amelia Earhart book The Aviator and the Showman—is on the front page of today’s New York Times Real Estate section!

LISTEN: The It Girl of the Air and Her Messy New York Marriage thecity.nyc/2025/09/20/ame… via THE CITY

New Lit NYC podcast, with Laurie Gwen Shapiro discussing her deep dive into Amelia Earhart, and how her messy marriage to a shady NYC character helped her get cast as America’s "aviatrix’ in what was in a sense the first reality TV show.

Gift link for my first piece for The Atlantic theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

My story!

Conspiracy theories about Amelia Earhart persist because "mystery sells far better than tragedy," Laurie Gwen Shapiro writes. But we should "remember the life she led, not just the myth she left behind": theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Conspiracy theories about Amelia Earhart persist because "mystery sells far better than tragedy," Laurie Gwen Shapiro writes. But we should "remember the life she led, not just the myth she left behind": theatln.tc/DVuOgyMZ

Bravo to Reagan Airport for this display. We had a great History Camp Author Discussion a few weeks ago with Laurie Gwen Shapiro on her new book on Earhart and her husband George Putnam.

FINAL call for this! Learn how my book got excerpted & material is fact-checked at The New Yorker from the Features Director. Thurs, Oct 9 -6 - 8pm EDT 20 Cooper Sq Room: 7C For the NYU journalism school, but also open to public via RSVP and ID. events.nyu.edu/event/367149-i…

Amelia Earhart fans ! New York City History fans! Here’s something really different! on December 9. I’ll be leaving at one time only Amelia Earhart in NYC walking tour for Untapped New York with their chief experience officer - only 20 spots - untappedcities.com/amelia-earhart…

Oh boy, as Jonathan Petropoulos writes in his book Goring's Man in Paris,we know that Monuments Man Ted Rousseau, Met Museum's curator of Europ paintings was meeting postwar w/ known Nazi looters, incl Bruno Lohse Rose Valland's nemesis during & after buff.ly/vngtMMO

We had a wonderful unveiling for our 27th plaque honoring trailblazing aviator Amelia Earhart at her former home at Greenwich House with Laurie Gwen Shapiro. Check out the video, photos, and info on all our historic plaques: villagepreservation.org/campaign-updat…