Background
Ed Leefeldt was born on May 23, 1946, in Trenton, New Jersey. He is the son of Ed and Dorothy Leefeldt.
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Ed Leefeldt studied at Muhlenberg College. He got a Bachelor of Arts.
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Ed Leefeldt studied at the College of New Jersey. He got a Master of Education.
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Ed Leefeldt studied at the University of Texas.
Ed Leefeldt studied at the University of Pennsylvania.
(France during the Belle Epoque. When determined dreamers ...)
France during the Belle Epoque. When determined dreamers conquer the skies in the first flying machines, a daring new breed of adventurers capture the imagination of the world as they reach for the stars - and awaken a new instrument of destruction. One woman, driven by love and the need to redeem the tarnished legacy of her father, becomes the unlikely heroine who discovers that her destiny is entwined with this new world of flight waiting to be born.
https://www.amazon.com/Woman-Who-Rode-Wind/dp/0967953510
2001
Ed Leefeldt was born on May 23, 1946, in Trenton, New Jersey. He is the son of Ed and Dorothy Leefeldt.
Ed Leefeldt graduated from Muhlenberg College. There he earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1968. Then he studied at the College of New Jersey in Ewing and received a Master of Education in 1970. Leefeldt also attended the University of Texas at Austin in 1971 and the University of Pennsylvania in 1999.
After education, Ed Leefeldt started to work at the Trentonian as a staff writer in 1971. He spent a decade in that position. Then he served for the Wall Street Journal in New York. To date, Ed Leefeldt is a staff writer at the Bloomberg Markets magazine, and also, he is a leader of Writers' Exchange at Barnes & Noble. His work has also appeared in The New York Times.
Additionally, Leefeldt is a writer. He is currently the author of the non-fiction book, In Search Of the Paper Children, which exposed the foster care system and was instrumental in passing legislation to help children, and The Woman Who Rode the Wind.
Initially published as Lighter than Air, The Woman Who Rode the Wind is a total departure from the rest of Ed Leefeldt's life, which has been spent in investigative journalism and finance. The idea for Lighter than Air came to him years ago while Leefeldt was lying on the floor doing sit-ups and feeling depressed about his divorce. He couldn't even think of a reason to get up. Looking up, he saw a book on his shelf about a man who flew through the streets of Paris in 1901, the most beautiful time and the most beautiful city in the world. Suddenly all the music of that period began to flow through Leefeldt's head. It made him feel "lighter than air," and that was the genesis of his book. There is also an element of hell in the book. People went through hell in the twentieth century: world wars and cold wars, holocaust, and extermination. In 1900 they believed that inventions like airplanes would cure ills and make them equals in the sky. That's one of the reasons they risked their lives, and many died learning to fly. They called it "the winged gospel." It was the innocence of that era, the belief that things could be better if people just worked harder, that Leefeldt wanted to capture.
(France during the Belle Epoque. When determined dreamers ...)
2001Ed Leefeldt thinks that millions of Americans "play with their stock portfolios" every day, hoping to make more money, but they forget that time is the most valuable currency of all. He believes that the real question is what people will do with their life because that's their greatest asset.
Quotations: "My goal in writing Lighter than Air was to be my own hero to build my own flying machine and fly through the streets of a city like Paris, scattering roses on the people below. Sound crazy? All these things happened a hundred years ago and could again."
Ed Leefeldt is divorced and has four children, Kristin Leefeldt Melendez, Tim, Erik, and Maren Leefeldt Kravitz.