Author | Jane Mendelsohn |
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Language | English |
Subject | Amelia Earhart |
Genre | Fiction |
Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
Publication date | April 16, 1996 |
Publication place | United States |
Pages | 145 |
ISBN | 9780224044349 |
OCLC | 36551628 |
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.