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Ann Morrow Lindbergh, 1906-2001: Pilot, Writer By Shelley Gollust2009-6-27 VOICE ONE: Im Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And Im Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Every week we tell about a person who was important in the history of the United States. Today, we tell about Anne Morrow Lindbergh.She was a famous pilot and writer.? (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Anne Spencer Morrow was born in nineteen-oh-six in Englewood, New Jersey. Her father was a very rich banker. He later became the American ambassador to Mexico. Her mother was an educator and poet. Anne went to Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. She wanted to become a writer. She won two major prizes from the college for her writing. VOICE TWO: Ann Morrow LindberghAnne Morrow was a quiet, shy and small young woman when she met Charles Lindbergh in nineteen twenty-seven.He was staying with her family in Mexico City. The twenty-five year old man was tall and good looking. Charles Lindbergh was one of the most famous people in the world. He had just become the first person to fly a plane alone across the Atlantic Ocean, from New York to Paris. Two years later, Anne and Charles Lindbergh were married. Reports about their marriage were on the front pages of newspapers around the world. VOICE ONE: After her marriage to Charles Lindbergh, Anne became a pilot. She learned to plan an airplane flight as a navigator, operate a radio and fly a plane.She began making many long airplane flights with her husband. In nineteen thirty, she became the first woman in the United States to get a pilots license to fly a glider, which does not have an engine. That same year, the Lindberghs set a speed record for flying across the United States.They flew from Los Angeles, California to New York City in fourteen hours and forty-five minutes. Anne Lindbergh was seven months pregnant at the time.? The Lindberghs explored new ways to fly around the world. They flew almost fifty thousand kilometers over fiv