c-span: susan butler, author of east to dawn: the life of amelia earhart, where did you get the title east to dawn ? guest: oh, the title east to the dawn was my actually my husband s contribution to the book. i had a very trendy title, amelia earhart, an extraordinary woman, and we decided it had to be something really much more interesting, and he came up with east to the dawn, which i thought was brilliant. c-span: what s it mean? guest: well, it means that her major flights were from west to east, and she was on her solo flight across the atlantic flying into the dawn. she was on her first flight, where she was just a passenger, from newfoundland to europe, flying into the dawn. and on her solo flight from hawaii to california, she was flying into the dawn. and then, of course, on the last flight, where she was lost, she was lost flying into the dawn. c-span: when did she live? guest: she was born in 1897, and this is the 100th anniversary of her birth. c-span:
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