I Was Amelia Earhart

I Was Amelia Earhart
AuthorJane Mendelsohn
LanguageEnglish
SubjectAmelia Earhart
GenreFiction
PublisherAlfred A. Knopf
Publication date
April 16, 1996 (1996-04-16)
Publication placeUnited States
Pages145
ISBN9780224044349
OCLC36551628

I Was Amelia Earhart is Jane Mendelsohn's debut novel, published by Knopf in 1996. It tells a fictional account of what happened to Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, after they disappeared off the coast of New Guinea in 1937. The book was shortlisted for the 1997 Orange Prize for Fiction and appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list for fourteen weeks.