Beryl Markham (1902-1986), raised by her pioneer father in Africa, trained race horses, worked as a bush pilot, and was the first to fly solo across the Atlantic, from east to west. Beryl Markham was born in Ashwell, Leicestershire County, England on...

1902-1986 English Aviator Beryl Markham, an aviation pioneer, was the first person to make a solo, non-stop, transatlantic flight from England to the American continent. Markham's memoirs of the flight were published in her book, West With the...

Beryl Markham Born October 26, 1902, Leicester, England Died Auqust 3, 1986, Nairobi, Kenya Beryl Markham spent most of her life in Kenya, a country in eastern Africa, where she was well known for her career as a bush pilot and for her success as a...

Beryl Markham (26 October 1902 - 3 August 1986), was a British-born Kenyan author, pilot, horse trainer and...

IN THE MOVING PROLOGUE to Straight On Till Morning, Beryl Markham's biographer Mary Lovell tells how she discovered West with the Night, a lyrical combination of Markham's three main passions--flying, horses and Africa--and how she spent some weeks at the end of Markham's...

STRAIGHT ON TILL MORNING The Biography of Beryl Markham By Mary S. Lovell St. Martin's. 408 pp. $16.95 ONE OF THE more improbable stories in recent publishing history began about four years ago, when a publisher on the West Coast, North Point Press,...