Tucson Festival of Books

Laurie Gwen Shapiro


Laurie Gwen Shapiro is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and journalist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, New York, Slate and Aeon. She comes to the festival with "The Aviator and the Showman," which explores the relationship between Amelia Earhart and George Putnam before she and her plane disappeared. Shapiro now lives in New York City and is an adjunct professor in the master's program at NYU's Journalism Institute. 

Communities: secular Jewish


Books:
The Aviator and the Showman
Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage that Made an American Icon
History / Biography
Penguin Group
July 2025
ISBN 9780593295908
512 pages

The Stowaway
A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica
History / Biography
Simon & Schuster
January 2019
ISBN 9781476753874
272 pages