title: Gifts from the Spirit: Reflections on the Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh
author: Kim Jocelyn Dickson
description: Kim Jocelyn Dickson was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and graduated from the University of Missouri- Columbia. While working on her masters at Princeton Theological Seminary she discovered the work of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, which profoundly influenced her spiritual journey. Today she writes and teaches in Southern California, where she lives with her son. Gifts From the Spirit is her first book.
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  # ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  
  
  
  
  
  In 1989, Phyllis E. Grann, Chairman and CEO of Putnam Berkley, asked if I
  would be interested in writing a book she had been wanting to read for fifteen
  years—a biography of Charles Lindbergh. “Yes and no,” I told her. Lindbergh
  had long been on my short list of potential subjects, I explained; but, alas,
  I had already ascertained that his papers were under lock and key and that his
  family had no interest in opening them to researchers. Mrs. Grann did not
  care; she simply wanted to read about Lindbergh. I explained that the only
  circumstances under which I would attempt such a book would be with the
  complete cooperation of the Lindbergh family, which would allow me to see and
  quote from what was rumored to be hundreds of boxes of material.
  
  
  
  
  
  After almost a year of correspondence, Charles Lindbergh’s widow, Anne Morrow
  Lindbergh, asked if we could meet. And after a