Amelia Mary Earhart was born on July 24, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas (Doyle). Growing up, Earhart was a normal child who went fishing and played sports in her free time, but it wasn’t until she was twenty-three when she found her passion for flying (Doyle). Earhart attended her first airshow in 1920 in Los Angeles California (Doyle). Her father paid an aviator at the airshow ten dollars to take Earhart on a ten minute flight (Doyle). Earhart remembers the exact moment she wanted to fly. “By the time I had got two or three hundred feet off the ground I knew I had to fly” (Doyle). In 1922 Earhart was taught to fly by the first woman to graduate from the Curtiss School of Aviation, Neta Snook (Doyle). Later that same year, she obtained her pilot's license from Federation Aeronautique Internationale (Doyle). On August 25, 1932, Earhart flew across the Atlantic Ocean on a successful nonstop nineteen hour flight (“Amelia Earhart Crosses…”).