Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, March 27, 1993 TAG: 9303270043
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: B10 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Reviewed by Ken Locke
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Instead, she married the single most exciting and desirable man of her day: Charles Lindbergh.
But the life of exciting flights to exotic lands did not bring freedom. Lindbergh was an insecure college dropout who actively controlled Anne's opinions, friendships and politics. The only outlet for the tensions that followed were her diaries, fiction and essays.
Yet it was these tensions that spurred her to develop an artistic voice and to create a body of work that will live long after Lucky Lindy's politics are forgotten.
It is primarily from these exhaustive writings that Herrmann draws her portrait of Anne Morrow Lindbergh. We come to see Anne as a woman of considerable sensitivity, strength and devotion to her husband and to his work, despite the cost to her own emotional and artistic development. Readers will find few references to such mundane items as favorite foods or fashions. Instead, they will become caught up in the inner growth of a woman whose family, society and husband did not encourage growth of any kind.
The reader will learn to appreciate the development of a woman whose devotion to her husband seems stifling, but which caused her to become one of the most celebrated writers of her time.
\ AUTHOR Ken Locke is a Radford writer.
\ "Anne Morrow Lindbergh: A Gift for Life" By Dorothy Herrmann. Ticknor & Fields $24.95.
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