by Susan Hertog
Lindbergh Picture Collection, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library
Lindbergh Picture Collection, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library
Photographed by the author
Lindbergh Picture Collection, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library
New York Times Pictures
U.S. Air Force Photo
Lindbergh Picture Collection, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library
© Richard W. Brown
Alden Whitman Papers, 1935–1986, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations
Alden Whitman Papers, 1935–1986. Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations
Alden Whitman Papers, 1935–1986. Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations
© Richard W. Brown
Photo by Robert E. Paulson, Used with the permission of the Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation
AP/Wide World Photos
AP/Wide World Photos
Dwight and Elizabeth Morrow, married twelve years and well ensconced in the New York and Englewood financial and social communities, posing with their children on the back lawn of their Palisades Avenue home, 1915. (Amherst College Archives and Special Collections, Amherst College Library)
Anne, unsmiling, dressed in ribbons and bows, possibly on her first birthday, with her grandmother, circa 1907. (Lindbergh Picture Collection, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library)
Charles Lindbergh with his father, Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr., a real estate lawyer elected as a Congressman to the 6th District of Minnesota in 1906, serving for ten years, circa 1912. (Photo by David B. Edmonston, Minnesota Historical Society)
A lighthearted Anne, age ten, smiles jauntily at the camera in a rare show of her mischievous side, Englewood, New Jersey, circa 1916. (Lindbergh Picture Collection, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library)
Anne as a teenager, serious and contemplative, too old to be carefree, too young to be adventurous. Recognized as a poet and an essayist at the Chapin School in New York City, Anne has a nuanced and penetrating eye, circa 1920. (Lindbergh Picture Collection, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library)
Anne spends a quiet summer afternoon reading on the back porch swing of the Morrows’ Palisades Avenue home in Englewood, circa 1916. (Lindbergh Picture Collection, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library)
The Morrow children – Elisabeth, Anne, Dwight Jr., and Constance – perfectly composed and lined in a row, circa 1920. (Corbis/Underwood & Underwood)
Elizabeth Morrow escorting her daughter Elisabeth to England on a passenger ship, circa 1926. Elisabeth has a flair for fashion and charade, easily hiding the painful effects of her heart disease from her family and friends. (UPI/Corbis-Bettmann)
Anne Morrow, fall 1927, clowns with her friends in the first row as they pose for a class picture, soon to graduate from Smith College. (Lindbergh Picture Collection, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library)
Charles Lindbergh with his mother, Evangeline Lodge Land Lindbergh, posing for the press before takeoff for his transatlantic flight, May 1927. (Rinhart; George/Corbis-Bettmann)
Charles Lindbergh, after completing his second record-breaking flight, 2200 miles from Washington, D.C., strikes a sophisticated pose for the Morrow sisters, Elisabeth and Anne, on the grounds of the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City, December 1927. (Lindbergh Picture Collection, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library)
The house and gardens of the Morrow estate, called Next Day Hill (to-Morrow), Englewood, New Jersey, circa 1929. Today it houses the Elisabeth Morrow School. (UPI / Corbis-Bettmann)
Elizabeth and Dwight Morrow stand at the front door of their sprawling new home in Englewood, set into the hills of the Palisades, custom built by European craftsmen on fifty-two acres of meadows and woodlands, circa 1929. (Amherst College Archives and Special Collections, Amherst College Library)
Anne and Charles with Gloria Swanson at an official reception during their 1929 flight to California for TAT, introducing coast-to-coast service in forty-eight hours by train and plane. Anne, tired of the public ceremony, wants to go home to her sisters and her parents. (Culver Pictures)
In July of 1930, Anne nurses her newborn son, Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., in the garden of her parents’ Englewood estate. Frustrated without a home of their own, the Lindberghs nonetheless choose to remain in the comfort and security of Next Day Hill. (New York Times Co./Archive Photo)
After a three-month tour west to California, Anne and Charles pose in front of their Lockheed Sirius at the Los Angeles airport before their record-breaking transcontinental flight home to New York, March 21, 1930. Anne, the first woman to receive a glider pilot’s license, is now seven months pregnant. (AP/Wide World Photos)
Anne Morrow and Charles Lindbergh at Mitchell Field, Long Island, on their honeymoon, July 1929. (Lindbergh Picture Collection, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library)
Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., surrounded by his great-grandmother Annie Cutter, his grandmother Elizabeth Morrow, and his mother, Anne, January 1931. (UPI/Corbis-Bettmann)
The road leading up to the Morrow estate on Deacon’s Point on North Haven, an island off the coast of Maine. The house was built at the same time as Next Day Hill, while Dwight Morrow was Ambassador to Mexico, circa 1929-1930.
(Lindbergh Picture Collection, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library)
On a survey tour north to Asia, Anne and Charles arrive in Ottawa, Canada, August 1931, before crossing the icy tundra toward Alaska. (Roger-Viollet/Liaison Agency)
Anne posing with Eskimos in Point Barrow, Alaska, August 1931. (Underwood & Underwood/Corbis-Bettmann)
Anne and Charles land in Aklavik, Alaska, en route to Japan and China, August 1931. (AP/Wide World Photos)
In September 1931, Anne and Charles arrived safely in Japan after a two-month-long flight through the northwest tundra of Canada to Alaska and down the Bering Strait. Much of the territory had never been seen from the air, and constant walls of fog forced them to fly blindly, with only Anne and her Morse-code radio to guide them. (Lindbergh Picture Collection, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library)
Anne and Charles at a tea ceremony in Tokyo. Anne is moved by the spirituality of the ritual, which leads to self-knowledge through silence and meditation, a theme that will come to dominate her work. (Corbis/Underwood & Underwood)
Anne addresses the public on the state of the flooded regions in China, on behalf of the Federal Council of Churches, February 1932. (Culver Pictures)
In September of 1932, Anne and Charles and the Morrow family gather, as usual, at their estate on North Haven, Maine, for their end-of-summer reunion. Elisabeth, now thirty, is frail with heart disease; Constance, eighteen, is a student at Smith; and Dwight Jr., twenty-four, is a student at Amherst. (Lindbergh Picture Collection, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library)
After Jon’s birth, Anne resumes flying with Charles as his copilot. She smiles in the cockpit of their newly equipped Lockheed Sirius, which will take them to Europe, Africa, and South America on a five-month survey tour of potential passenger air routes, summer 1933. (Lindbergh Picture Collection, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library)
Anne Lindbergh in a kayak in Holstein, Greenland, during the Lindberghs’ survey flight of 1933. (Lindbergh Picture Collection, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library)
Anne and Charles land in Leningrad in September 1933 on a survey tour through Europe. Here she poses with a group of Russian sailors. (Popperfoto)
Anne and Charles arrive in Miami, Florida, on December 16, 1933, after their prolonged flight to South America and through the Caribbean. Anne is glad to be back after five months away from home. Her baby, Jon, waits for her in Englewood. (AP/Wide World Phot
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Charles Augustus Jr. celebrating his first birthday on June 22, 1931. (Popperfoto)
Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., was abducted from his nursery in the new Lindbergh home in Hopewell, New Jersey, on March 1, 1932. The State Troopers and federal investigators comb the crime scene for clues. (UPI/Corbis-Bettmann)
Charles Lindbergh is among the first to testify at Bruno Richard Hauptmann’s trial in Flemington, New Jersey, in January 1935. Charles came to the trial every day with a .38-caliber pistol strapped to his chest. (UPI/Corbis-Bettmann)
Hauptmann, the German-born carpenter accused of kidnapping the Lindbergh baby, being led to the courthouse in Flemington, New Jersey, for his trial, January 1935. (UPI/Corbis-Bettmann)
Reporters gather outside the courthouse to cover the trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann. Hundreds of newsmen write thousands of words each day to feed the demands of a voracious public. The account of the trial in the newspapers was seen as “a real-life masterpiece,” surpassing fiction. (Corbis-Bettmann)
During the final weeks of the trial, Colonel Norman H. Schwarzkopf, Superintendent of the New Jersey State Police, and Anne Lindbergh accompany Mrs. Morrow to testify at Hauptmann’s trial. It was the second time Anne attended, preferring the seclusion of her parents’ home. “Justice doesn’t need my emotions,” she said. (AP/Wide World Photos)
Anne and Margot Loines sailing off the coast of North Haven, summer 1935. Margot offers Anne new hope for spiritual reconciliation with death and evil through her belief in Theosophy. (Lindbergh Picture Collection, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library)
Anne at her desk on North Haven, Maine, working on the manuscript of Listen!
The Wind, her travel account of the 1933 transatlantic survey tour, summer 1935. (Lindbergh Picture Collection, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library)
Anne and Jon, age four, with their guard dog Thor and their Highland terrier Skean in the garden of Long Barn, winter 1937. (Lindbergh Picture Collection, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library)
Long Barn, Kent, England, home of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, which the Lindberghs rented in 1936-1937 to escape death threats to their son Jon and the intrusions of the American press. (Lindbergh Picture Collection, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library)
Anne in a straw hat, writing on a terrace overlooking the gardens at Long Barn. The beauty and seclusion of the house and land restored Anne’s faith in nature and life, permitting her once again to write. (Lindbergh Picture Collection, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library)
Anne and Charles arrive in Germany, July 1936, flanked by Truman and Kay Smith. At the request of Smith, the U.S. military attaché, 1935-1936, Charles has been invited by the Reich to tour aviation factories and review developments in air warfare technology. (Ullstein Bilderdienst)
In July of 1936, on their first trip to Germany, Air Minister Hermann Goering shows Charles his ceremonial saber while Anne, Kay, and Truman Smith look on. (Popperfoto)
Alexis Carrel, French surgeon, sociologist, and biologist who received the 1912 Nobel Prize for Medicine. Impressed with Charles’s facility and skill, Carrel invited him to join his laboratory staff at the Rockefeller Institute as a technical consultant in 1932. (UPI/Corbis-Bettmann)
A cart delivering furniture to the Lindbergh house on Illiec, a small rocky island off the coast of Brittany, purchased by Charles in the spring of 1937 at the request of his mentor and collaborator, Dr. Alexis Carrel. In Carrel’s laboratory on the neighboring island of Saint-Gildas, Charles and he designed apparatus that would preserve human organs in the hope of prolonging life and creating a superior human breed. (Lindbergh Picture Collection, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library)
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the French writer and aviator whom Anne met in New York in 1939 shortly after her return to America from Europe. An admirer of his essays and narratives, Anne felt an immediate spiritual kinship that inspired her later work. (UPI/Corbis-Bettmann)
In May of 1941, Charles speaks at a rally for the America First Committee, a broad-spectrum political-pressure organization opposing aid to the Allies in World War II. (UPI/Corbis-Bettmann)
Summer 1943. Anne and her four children, Jon, Land, Scott, and Anne. While Charles worked as a technical consultant to the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan, the Lindberghs rented a home in the affluent suburban enclave of Bloomfield Hills. For the first time, Anne becomes a part of a community of artists. (Lindbergh Picture Collection, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library)
Charles arriving home from the South Pacific, September 1944. (UPI/Corbis-Bettmann)
Anne and her youngest daughter, Reeve, age three, summer 1948, North Haven, Maine. (Lindbergh Picture Collection, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library)
Grandma Bee, Elizabeth Cutter Morrow, with her children and grandchildren on North Haven, summer 1948, at their annual reunion. (Lindbergh Picture Collection, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library)
The once-spartan four-room cottage on Captiva Island off the west coast of Florida, which Anne rented in January of 1950. Strolling along the shell-laden beaches of the remote island, Anne conceived her book Gift from the Sea. (Photographed by Susan Hertog in 1986)
Dr. Dana Atchley, internist and pioneer in psychosomatic medicine at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, on the beach at Treasure Island in the Bahamas, winter 1950. The Atchleys and the Lindberghs, neighbors in Englewood, traveled here together. Later, Anne and Dana would fall in love. (Lindbergh Picture Collection, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library)
Anne’s mother, Elizabeth Cutter Morrow, circa 1940. She had become an eminent champion of women’s education, a philanthropist, and a political activist, calling for American intervention in World War II. (New York Times Pictures)
Charles is sworn in as a Brigadier General in the Air Force Reserves, regaining the commission he gave up after a dispute with President Roosevelt before World War II, April 1954. (U.S. Air Force Photo)
The Lindberghs’ home in Maui, built in 1967 on five acres of land purchased from their friend Sam Pryor, whom Charles met in his early days of flying for Pan Am. While Charles loved the beauty of the land, water, and sky, Anne was often left alone, feeling isolated from her friends and family and hating the constant ocean’s roar. (Lindbergh Picture Collection, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library)
Anne and Charles, September 1969, in Darien, Connecticut, recently returned from a trip to Africa. (Richard W. Brown)
In 1971, Alden Whitman and Charles Lindbergh toured the Philippines. Whitman, a seasoned journalist and the editor of the obituary page of The New York Times, was the first reporter in thirty years with whom Charles would speak. Whitman hoped to document Charles’s environmental vision and projects. (Alden Whitman Papers, New York Public Library)
Charles visiting his son Land on his cattle ranch in western Montana, April 1971. (Alden Whitman Papers, New York Public Library)
Charles in the kitchen of his boyhood home in Little Falls, Minnesota, on the shore of the Mississippi River, in 1971. His home is now a museum and a state park. (Alden Whitman Papers, New York Public Library)
Anne and her granddaughter Elizabeth Lindbergh Brown, Barnet, Vermont, Christmas, 1978. (Richard Brown)
Three generations of Lindbergh women. Anne, her daughter Reeve, and her granddaughter Elizabeth at the dedication of the Lindbergh Terminal in Minneapolis, 1985. (Photo by Robert E. Paulson, used by permission of the Anne and Charles Lindbergh Foundation)
Anne, overcome with emotion, on the capitol grounds of St. Paul, Minnesota, in May 1985, at the dedication of a statue of Charles by sculptor Paul Granland. He is depicted as both a boy and an aviator. (AP/Wide World Photos)
Anne presenting an award to the Queen of Thailand for her efforts in environmental preservation at the Lindbergh Fund annual meeting, New York City, May 1995. (AP/Wide World Photos)
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Copyright © 1999 by Susan Hertog
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Nan A. Talese, an imprint of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 1999.