Laurie Gwen Shapiro

Laurie Gwen Shapiro is an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, New York, The Daily Beast, Slate, and other publications. She is the author of The Stowaway (Simon & Schuster, 2018), a national bestseller and Indie Next selection, and The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage That Made an American Icon (Viking, 2025), named one of the year's best books by NPR, Amazon, The New Yorker, Smithsonian Magazine, The New York Post, and HISTORY.com. The Aviator and the Showman has been optioned for film and television.