By Anne W. Semmes

New York award-winning author Laurie Gwen Shapiro had 71 attendees spellbound in Greenwich Library’s Marx Family Black Box Theater at Greenwich Library a week ago Monday telling the three-dimensional story of daring flyer Amelia Earhart, and the vital part of her mate George Palmer Putnam, once of Old Greenwich, had played in her storied fame. It’s all there in the near-500 pages of Shapiro’s book, “The Aviator and the Show Man” published this year.

Shapiro began, “More people have gotten Amelia Earhart wrong than perhaps any other person in the last century. Wrong facts about every single aspect of her life, wrong conclusions about her personality, her career, her goals, her sexuality, and her disappearance.” But “What stands out about Amelia Earhart, the real woman…S

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