Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Anne Spencer Morrow, 1918
Born	Anne Spencer Morrow (1906-06-22)June 22, 1906 Englewood, New Jersey, U.S.
Died	February 7, 2001(2001-02-07) (aged 94) Passumpsic, Vermont, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Smith College
Occupation	Author, aviator
Spouse(s)	Charles Lindbergh
Children	Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr. (d. 1932) Jon Lindbergh Land Lindbergh Anne Lindbergh (d. 1993) Scott Lindbergh Reeve Lindbergh
Parent(s)	Dwight Whitney Morrow Elizabeth Cutter Morrow
Awards	Hubbard Medal (1934)

Anne Spencer Lindbergh (née Morrow; June 22, 1906 – February 7, 2001) was an American author, aviator, and the wife of aviator Charles Lindbergh.

She was an acclaimed author whose books and articles spanned the genres of poetry to nonfiction, touching upon topics as diverse as youth and age, love and marriage, peace, solitude and contentment, and the role of women in the 20th century. Lindbergh's Gift from the Sea is a popular inspirational book, reflecting on the lives of American women.

Anne Spencer Morrow was born on June 22, 1906 in Englewood, New Jersey. Her father was Dwight Morrow, a partner in J.P. Morgan & Co., who became United States Ambassador to Mexico and United States Senator from New Jersey. Her mother, Elizabeth, was a poet and teacher, active in women's education, who served as acting president of her alma mater Smith College.

Anne was the second of four children; her siblings were Elisabeth Reeve, Dwight, Jr., and Constance. The children were raised in a Calvinist household that fostered achievement. Every night, Morrow's mother would read to her children for an hour. The children quickly learned to read and write, began reading to themselves, and writing poetry and diaries. Anne would later benefit from that routine, eventually publishing her later diaries to critical acclaim.

After graduating from The Chapin School in New York City in 1924, where she was president of the student body, she attended Smith College from which she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1928.

She received the Elizabeth Montagu Prize, for her essay on women of the 18th century such as Madame d'Houdetot, and the Mary Augusta Jordan Literary Prize, for her fictional piece "Lida Was Beautiful."

Morrow and Lindbergh met on December 21, 1927, in Mexico City. Her father, Lindbergh's financial adviser at J. P. Morgan and Co., invited him to Mexico to advance good relations between it and the United States.