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The secret turbulence of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s dramatic marriage
A new biography, “Solo and Together”, portrays Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s 45-year marriage as enduring but deeply difficult. Author James R. Hansen argues that their story’s achievements and failures were closely linked, and describes a relationship shaped by Charles’s controlling manner and emotional reserve, which often left the more sensitive Anne isolated.
The couple met in Mexico in 1927 and married privately after Charles became famous for his solo Atlantic flight. Anne joined him as a navigator on a 1931 expedition and later wrote a prize-winning book about it. Their young son was kidnapped and killed in 1932; the article says Charles tried to manage the crisis by controlling events and suppressing emotion, while Anne needed space to grieve. They later left the United States amid intense media attention.
In short
- A new biography examines the Lindberghs’ complicated marriage.
- Their relationship lasted 45 years, through major public and personal trials.
- The death of their son exposed their contrasting ways of coping with grief.