May 16 & 17, noon to 2. Rare photos, hidden NYC, George Putnam drama, and Amelia’s first NYC home. @untappedny.bsky.social One-time tour. Members free. Non-members can buy tickets. Book here. ✈️ www.untappedcities.com/amelia-earha...

Magic hour! Filming at Amelia Earhart’s old house today! More on this news to come. I did a lot of research here and know the family who lives here well. Hanging with the mayor of Harrison too! #ameliaearhart

Wilmington, NC. April 16. The Fuzzy Needle I’ll be reading from The Aviator and the Showman, then in conversation with John Jeremiah Sullivan, whose work I greatly admire, with live music by Julia Rothenberger. Talking Amelia Earhart! Proceeds go to local literacy efforts. Come if you’re nearby.

My new piece up at @smithsonianmag.bsky.social for Einstei’s birthday and Pi Day! #einstein #piday www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...

This one came together fast. Posted a Neil Sedaka song, an old camp friend said her dad played with him in the Catskills, and 24 hours later I had an oral history for The Forward from the dad, Howie Tichler. forward.com/culture/8088...

Join the talented @lauriestories.bsky.social live at SVA Theater on 1/18! Secure your spot now and help congratulate the talented Journalists of 2025! Tickets: tinyurl.com/yxd9ak2c

New book news: I’m writing a narrative nonfiction story about Albert Einstein. Grateful to my agent @peter23.bsky.social at UTA and my editor Emily at Viking, who steered The Aviator and the Showman. Very ready. And so very grateful. @unitedtalentagency.bsky.social @vikingbooks.bsky.social

This landed in my inbox today! On Wednesday, January 7 at 6:30 pm, I will be in conversation at The New York Historical with David Rubenstein for the History with David Rubenstein series. We will talk Amelia Earhart, and also George Putnam, the P.T. Barnum of Publishing. @nyhistory.bsky.social

The Aviator and the Showman was included on the New York Post's 30 Best Books of 2025 - I don't always agree with their political coverage but I am startled all the time how good their book coverage is. This is true! Go figure. Here's the whole article - nypost.com/.../enterta....

This made my day. History.com named The Aviator and the Showman one of the Best New History Books of 2025. One of 12 books! @vikingbooks.bsky.social @history.com Link in comments. www.history.com/articles/bes...

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6 a.m. at Baltimore airport, headed to the first stop on my three-city Texas run. Houston, Austin, Waco. Killing time with the news on my phone and spot in the New York Times holiday gift guide there is a little “also consider” line for The Aviator and the Showman! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/b...

Miami! Back for one night only to moderate Susan Orlean’s new memoir JOYRIDE at Books & Books Coral Gables on Dec 12 at 7 pm. She is one of the writers who nudged me into nonfiction as a fan, and this is my favorite book of the year so far. Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...

A top 10 history book year at Smithsonian “Shapiro reveals a more complex Earhart than often acknowledged, a woman who was ‘ambitious, courageous, intelligent, curious, sexual, overconfident, lazy, kindhearted, shrewd and flawed.’” @smithsonianmag.bsky.social www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-...

Very happy to share that NPR’s annual roundup “Books We Love” feature (2025 edition) included THE AVIATOR AND THE SHOWMAN! @npr.org

Excited! I will be on CSpan’s BookTV from the Miami Book Fair, talking about The Aviator and the Showman and the marriage of Amelia Earhart and George Palmer Putnam. There are so many writers here! - feel very grateful to be interviewed for television. @vikingbooks.bsky.social #ameliaearhart

The Aviator and the Showman by @lauriestories.bsky.social

Have you read @lauriestories.bsky.social’s ‘The Aviator and the Showman? Since you’ve evoked him, here’s what ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ author David Grann thought of it:

A YouTube link for my ABC News Australia appearance talking Amelia Earhart youtu.be/vCgubujNmK0?...

A few screenshots from my appearance this morning on The World on ABC News Australia. iview.abc.net.au/video/NC2508... My segment is LONG and begins at 35:34 and runs to 46:35.

gift link quoted in the Times today! #ameliaearhart www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...

Easily the best nonfiction book I've read from this year. Check it out if you haven't already.

So happy and grateful to have The Aviator and the Showman named one of Amazon’s best biographies and memoirs of 2025 www.amazon.com/b/?_encoding...

What an honor to be interviewed by @npr.org Scott Simon open.substack.com/pub/scottsim...

I am the latest guest on THE BOWERY BOYS, my favorite podcast. Dreams come true! Talking about Amelia Earhart, natch! #ameliaearhart @boweryboys.bsky.social

one time Amelia Earhart in NYC walking tour Dec 9 - only 20 spots. @untappedny.bsky.social www.untappedcities.com/amelia-earha...

🚨 Registration is open! Date: Thursday, Oct 9. Time: 6:00–8:00pm EDT Location: 20 Cooper Square, Room 7C I'll be at Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at NYU for a lively conversation between me & Daniel Zalewski, esteemed Features Director of The New Yorker. He is the best in the business.

Amazing read.

My very first piece for @theatlantic.com My first piece for @theatlantic.com “…Earhart’s 1937 disappearance has been fertile ground for speculation: pulp stories, Hollywood films, and best-selling books that turned a tragic...” #theaviatorandtheahowman #ameliaearhart @vikingbooks.bsky.social

Excited! Well seeing this piece inspired by my book on the front page of the Sunday Times Real Sstate section made my morning! Nothing like print.

I loved this new piece on my Amelia Earhart book, The Aviator and the Showman by Jennifer Ouelette at @arstechnica.com

Shoutout to @lauriestories.bsky.social as I've recently read her very fine "The Aviator and the Showman" which covers the marriage of Amelia Earhart & George Putnam in great depth. Ms. Shapiro, your work gives me some new tour points as a docent at NASM. Thanks for your thorough research. 1/3

“The Aviator and the Showman,” Ms. Shapiro’s intriguing new double biography of Earhart and George Palmer Putnam..." The New York Times story, inspired by my book, will eventually be in print in the Streetscapes section in the Real Estate section - but here's an early online version!

PICK FLICK! Boston! Sept 25, 6 PM at East End Books Seaport. I’ll be talking Amelia Erhat and The Aviator and the Showman with Tom Perrotta (Election, Little Children, The Leftovers, Mrs. Fletcher, Tracy Flick Can’t Win). Come by!It'll be smart, funny, maybe a little uncomfortable!

Ahoy, @lauriestories.bsky.social, my esteemed county librarian has just lent this to me. The queue is pretty active (3 copies in circulation, 14 folks waiting.) I'll get into it tonight & check back in a few days.

I owe a few people books! Just sent a copy of The Aviator and the Showman to Franklin Delano Roosevelt III — grandson of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and one of my sources. Grateful for voices like his that helped bring this story to life.

🚨 EVENT STATUS UPDATE 🚨 The free event I posted earlier—me chatting with the incredible journalist & author Patrick Radden Keefe—just flipped from Going Fast to FEW TICKETS LEFT. The National Arts Club, NYC * Tues, Sept 30 * 6:30 PM @praddenkeefe.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/author-lau...

Just finished @lauriestories.bsky.social's "The Aviator and the Showman," a vivid and beautifully told account of Amelia Earhart, her book publisher husband, and her groundbreaking flights. Loved it. Highly recommended.

My latest read- first time for @airmail.news airmail.news/issues/2025-...

Thank you so much @lukeepplin.bsky.social - means a lot.

🚨 This one’s going fast. 🚨 Posted a few days ago & already marked GOING FAST (& not even promoted yet to NAC members). Sept 30 • 6:30 PM Free! National Arts Club, NYC In conversation w/ Patrick Radden Keefe @praddenkeefe.bsky.social @vikingbooks.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/author-lau...

Frank McCourt would have been 95 today. My mentor, my high school English teacher, my friend. I first met him at 15. I was lucky enough to travel to Ireland with him and the McCourt brothers on films — a memory I’ll hold forever. It only takes one teacher to believe in you. He changed my life.

This is a fabulous podcast~ Loved being a guest. "One of the books of the year! - Laurie gives you the whole story." @historynerdsunite.bsky.social

Thrilled to have my first piece for @smithsonianmag.bsky.social Amelia Earhart Vega is back in DC at the Air & Space Museum! Go! Also in story is a cameo by a historic votive copy of the Vega long forgotten & in a very small off the beaten path museum. www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...

Southern California—you made me an indie bestseller! The book just landed on the SCIBA bestseller list. I’m beyond grateful to every bookseller who’s put it into a reader’s hands. #IndieBestseller #SCIBA #TheAviatorAndTheShowman #ThankYouBooksellers #NarrativeNonfiction #AmeliaEarhart

“Shapiro reveals in painstaking detail... reckless and publicity-seeking adventures... thanks to the near-depraved ambitions of her husband.” —NYT Book Review Thrilled to see The Aviator and the Showman so positively featured. 📖 And yeah book out today! 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/b...

Happy publication day to @lauriestories.bsky.social for The Aviator and the Showman! Laurie's look at Amelia Earhart and George Putnam is getting rave reviews, and it was a delight to chat about the book. Check out our chat on our YouTube channel or where you get your podcasts. youtu.be/VJWrnjvzW98

This biography of Amelia Earhart was complex, scintillating and delicious. Loved it!