About the Author

Reeve Lindbergh is the author of many children's books and the novels No More Words: A Journal of My Mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and Forward from Here: Leaving Middle Age--and Other Unexpected Adventures. She lives with her husband, Nat Tripp, on a farm in northern Vermont.

Reviews

A poignant and superbly written memoir...A story of fascinating contradictions. -- James Tobin, Chicago Tribune

A wonderful family memoir. -- Geoffrey C. Ward, The New York Times Book Review

Marvelous, moving...An insider's look at the Lindberghs' private lives...this is a daughter's-eye view: gentle, candid and illustrated with intimate everyday details. -- Susan Cheever, USA Today

Touching...[an] often wry and compelling mosaic of life with father. -- T. H. Watkins, The Washington Post Book World

This memoir by the youngest child of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh provides a rare look into the lives of a closely guarded famous family. Reeve Lindbergh, an author of young adult fiction, relates how she gradually came to realize that her parents were famous and how the events that made them famous affected all of their lives. Without sugar-coating her parents, especially her father, whose domineering personality was a source of almost constant frustration, she poignantly reminisces about how she could never live up to his expectations, how her parents handled the murder of their first son, and how she herself coped with the loss of a sister to cancer, her own son's death, and her mother's decline. A forthright and moving memoir; recommended for all libraries. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 5/15/98.]ÄRonald Ray Ratliff, Chapman H.S. Lib., KS

YA-This beautifully written memoir allows readers to see the author's family as she knows them. She offers vivid descriptions of events, whether they be a flying lesson with her father, Charles Lindbergh, or the pain of watching the deteriorating health of her mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh. The author speaks about the circumstances of her eldest brother's kidnapping and death as a baby and how that tragedy forever affected her parents and their interactions with their other children. Readers also meet other relatives, including maternal and paternal grandparents and cousins, and see what roles they played in the family's lives. Lindbergh shows that her family's relationships have not always been easy but they have been close and deep. She doesn't shy away from the truth and yet she manages to be honest without being hurtful. A truly wonderful portrait of a famous family.-Peggy Bercher, Fairfax County Public Library, VA

A poignant and superbly written memoir...A story of fascinating contradictions. -- James Tobin, Chicago Tribune
A wonderful family memoir. -- Geoffrey C. Ward, The New York Times Book Review
Marvelous, moving...An insider's look at the Lindberghs' private lives...this is a daughter's-eye view: gentle, candid and illustrated with intimate everyday details. -- Susan Cheever, USA Today
Touching...[an] often wry and compelling mosaic of life with father. -- T. H. Watkins, The Washington Post Book World