Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Her Life (95 page)

 

Alexis Carrel, French surgeon, sociologist, and biologist who received the 1912 Nobel Prize for Medicine. Impressed with Charles’s facility and skill, Carrel invited him to join his laboratory staff at the Rockefeller Institute as a technical consultant in 1932. (UPI/Corbis-Bettmann)

 

 

A cart delivering furniture to the Lindbergh house on Illiec, a small rocky island off the coast of Brittany, purchased by Charles in the spring of 1937 at the request of his mentor and collaborator, Dr. Alexis Carrel. In Carrel’s laboratory on the neighboring island of Saint-Gildas, Charles and he designed apparatus that would preserve human organs in the hope of prolonging life and creating a superior human breed. (Lindbergh Picture Collection, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library)

 

 

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the French writer and aviator whom Anne met in New York in 1939 shortly after her return to America from Europe. An admirer of his essays and narratives, Anne felt an immediate spiritual kinship that inspired her later work. (UPI/Corbis-Bettmann)

 

 

In May of 1941, Charles speaks at a rally for the America First Committee, a broad-spectrum political-pressure organization opposing aid to the Allies in World War II. (UPI/Corbis-Bettmann)

 

 

Summer 1943. Anne and her four children, Jon, Land, Scott, and Anne. While Charles worked as a technical consultant to the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan, the Lindberghs rented a home in the affluent suburban enclave of Bloomfield Hills. For the first time, Anne becomes a part of a community of artists. (Lindbergh Picture Collection, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library)

 

 

Charles arriving home from the South Pacific, September 1944. (UPI/Corbis-Bettmann)

 

 

Anne and her youngest daughter, Reeve, age three, summer 1948, North Haven, Maine. (Lindbergh Picture Collection, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library)

 

 

Grandma Bee, Elizabeth Cutter Morrow, with her children and grandchildren on North Haven, summer 1948, at their annual reunion. (Lindbergh Picture Collection, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library)

 

 

The once-spartan four-room cottage on Captiva Island off the west coast of Florida, which Anne rented in January of 1950. Strolling along the shell-laden beaches of the remote island, Anne conceived her book
Gift from the Sea.
(Photographed by Susan Hertog in 1986)

 

 

Dr. Dana Atchley, internist and pioneer in psychosomatic medicine at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, on the beach at Treasure Island in the Bahamas, winter 1950. The Atchleys and the Lindberghs, neighbors in Englewood, traveled here together. Later, Anne and Dana would fall in love. (Lindbergh Picture Collection, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library)

 

 

Anne’s mother, Elizabeth Cutter Morrow, circa 1940. She had become an eminent champion of women’s education, a philanthropist, and a political activist, calling for American intervention in World War II. (New York Times Pictures)