![]() ![]() Now, The Aviator’s Wife (Delacorte Press, 416 pages) explores the lives of one of the most famous couples in 20th-century America, Charles and Anne Lindbergh.Īlthough the sands of history have almost engulfed them, the Lindberghs were one of the most watched couples of their time. ![]() Melanie Benjamin (Photo by Todd Rennels)īenjamin’s two previous novels, both best sellers, animated lesser-known historical figures: Alice Liddell, the girl who inspired Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, and Mercy Lavinia “Vinnie” Bump, the two-foot-eight-inch-tall woman who married General Tom Thumb. She aims to tell the “story behind the story,” but her books are so captivating that readers might find her interpretation of history more compelling than any historian’s version. ![]() Her characters pulse with life, and her plotlines illuminate obscure historical events in vibrant, fascinating ways. ![]() It wasn’t until her late 30s, and at the prompting of a friend, that she turned to writing fiction.ĭespite the late start, Benjamin, who will speak about her third novel, The Aviator’s Wife, at the Margaret Mitchell House on February 6, turns out absorbing historical fiction as though she has been writing it forever. As a child, Melanie Benjamin dreamed of becoming an actress. ![]()
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