Publisher, Blackstone Audiobooks (September 2009)

NOTE: RETAIL EDITIONS are packaged in attractive, compact cardboard, jewel-case or DVD shrink-wrapped boxes, with full-color art.

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“Certainly the single best book that we now have on Earhart's life....Earhart comes into sharper, more realistic focus through Butler's lens.” —Washington Post Book World

“Filled with wonderful details about Earhart's glamorous lifestyle and the wild, dangerous world of early aviators.” —Kirkus Reviews

“The reader closes East to the Dawn with the lingering realization of how truly contemporary Amelia Earhart remains and with a new understanding of the love and admiration she earned from colleagues and the public at large....her insistence on being her own person while fighting for causes larger than herself continue to command our respect and fuel our dreams.” —Los Angeles Times

The image we have of Amelia Earhart today — a tousle-haired, androgynous flier clad in shirt, silk scarf, leather jacket, and goggles — is only one of her many personas, most of which have been lost to us over time. Through years of research and interviews with many of the surviving people who knew Amelia, Susan Butler has recreated a remarkably vivid and multifaceted portrait of this enigmatic figure. Listeners will experience Amelia in all her permutations: not just as a pilot, but also as an educator, a social worker, a lecturer, a businesswoman, and a tireless promoter of women’s rights. We experience a remarkably energetic and enterprising woman who battled incredible odds to achieve her fame, succeeded beyond her wildest dreams, and yet never lost sight of her beginnings, ensuring that her success would secure a path for women after her.

About the Author: SUSAN BUTLER, whose mother was a member of Amelia Earhart’s flying organization, the Ninety-Nines, is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, among other publications. She spent ten years writing East to the Dawn, which is her first book.