Laurie Gwen Shapiro is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, journalist, and author of “The Stowaway” (Simon & Schuster). Her forthcoming biography of Amelia Earhart will be published by Viking.
Laurie Gwen Shapiro
By Laurie Gwen Shapiro
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