A Woman to Know: Beryl Markham
You can live a lifetime, and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. — Beryl
(image via Houghton Mifflin)
Of course, Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly over the Atlantic — east to west. Just four months later, however, Beryl Markham began the ((arguably more arduous) solo flight across the same ocean, just in the opposite direction, west to east. She chronicles the journey — and celebrity love affairs, royal rendezvouses and more — in her epic memoir, West With the Night. As Ernest Hermingway told his editor: "She has written so well, and marvelously well, that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer."
Add to your reading list:
West with the Night (Beryl Markham)
Circling the Sun (Paula McLain)
Almost Famous Women (Megan Mayhew Berman)
Straight On Until Morning: The Biography of Beryl Markham (Mary S. Lovell)
Read more:
An insanely glamorous love triangle (Town & Country Magazine)
My hero: Beryl Markham (The Guardian)
Beryl Markham: A Shadow in the Sun (The New York Times)
Is this the greatest feminist icon you've never heard of? (ELLE)
A high life, and a wild one (The New York Times)
The Many Lives of Beryl Markham (Scandalous Women)
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