Your Pen Pal
Amelia Earhart
Aviation pioneer who pushed the boundaries of flight.
“Peace of mind costs something, and the price is usually courage.”
Amelia Earhart
in correspondence
Who you will be writing to
Amelia Earhart grew up in Kansas, worked to pay for her first flying lessons, and in 1932 became the first woman to fly the Atlantic alone. She wrote books and columns, encouraged other women into aviation, and did her own thinking about what a life could hold.
In 1937 she disappeared over the Pacific attempting a flight around the world. The woman on record before that day was candid, practical, and a little wry, and that is the voice these letters keep.
What the letters hold
- The view from above, and earning it
- Doing the thing people say you cannot
- Preparation, checklists, and nerve
- Wanderlust and the pull of horizons
- Charting your own course, quietly
Questions about writing with Amelia
What are letters from Amelia Earhart like?↓
Straightforward and companionable, with flashes of dry humor. She is more interested in your horizons than her own legend. The letters are creative works drawn from her life and writings.
Do the letters deal with her disappearance?↓
No. They are written from within her life, so the mystery is not hers to discuss. What you get is the aviator as she actually was on record: capable, curious, and unsentimental.
Ready to write with Amelia?
Amelia Earhart will write back in their own hand, on real paper, mailed to your door.
Begin your correspondence with AmeliaIs each letter written by a person or by AI? A bit of both, and we're glad to be clear about it. Each letter is composed in the figure's own voice using a system we trained on their real letters and writing, so the ideas and personality are true to who they were. Then a real person reviews and refines every letter before it goes out. The result is original and personal, never pulled off a shelf.