Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Anne Morrow Lindbergh was born on June 22, 1906 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA as Anne Spencer Morrow. She was married to Charles A. Lindbergh.

The year she married aviator Charles A. Lindbergh, she piloted her first solo flight, and was the first American woman ever to earn a glider pilot's license. Anne and Charles explored and charted air routes between continents during the 1930s. The Lindberghs were the first to fly from Africa to South America, and explored polar air routes from North America to Asia and Europe.

Children, with Charles A. Lindbergh: Charles Lindbergh Jr.. (b. 1931), Jon Lindbergh (b. 1932), Land (b. 1937), Anne (b. 1940), Scott (b. 1942) and Reeve Lindbergh (b. 1945).

The Lindberghs' oldest child, Charles Lindbergh Jr.., was kidnapped from their home outside Hopewell, New Jersey on March 1, 1932. After a massive investigation, his dead body was discovered the following May 12, some four miles from the Lindberghs' home. The frenzied level of press attention paid to the Lindbergh kidnapping, and subsequent trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, prompted Charles and Anne to move to England, and later to France, Switzerland, and Hawaii.

Following World War II, Anne wrote several books, most notably 'Gift from the Sea' in 1955.

The story of the kidnapping/murder of her eldest son, Charles Lindbergh Jr.., inspired British author Agatha Christie for a murder mystery novel brought to the silver screen as Murder on the Orient Express (1974).

She was nominated for the 2017 New Jersey Hall of Fame for the Arts & Letters category.

She was nominated for the 2018 New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Arts and Letters category.

She was nominated for the 2019-2020 Class of New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Arts and Letters category.