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Beryl Markham is preparing to die when her airplane stalls over the icy Atlantic Ocean in the exciting first pages of Paula McLain's new novel "Circling the Sun."

Born in England in 1902, Beryl Markham (née Clutterbuck) was raised in present-day Kenya, where she became at the age of eighteen the continent’s first professional female racehorse trainer; she went on to train six Kenya Derby winners. In 1936 she took off from London for New York City in a borrowed plane with no radio equipment. She safely crashed in Nova Scotia after more

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The first person to fly solo, non-stop from Europe to North America, Markham lived life by her own rules.

Beryl Markham, English professional pilot, horse trainer and breeder, writer, and adventurer, best known for her memoir West with the Night (1942; reissued 1983). She also was the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean from east to west. Learn more about Markham’s life and career.

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'Hers was a big, messy, intrepid life - in 1936 she became the first person to fly solo from England to North America'