Anne Spencer Lindbergh; Writer and Daughter of Aviator

Anne Spencer Lindbergh, 53, a writer, teacher and the elder daughter of aviator Charles A. Lindbergh. Ms. Lindbergh was one of six children of Lindbergh and poet Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and was born eight years after the sensational kidnaping and killing of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. After studying in France for a number of years, Ms. Lindbergh moved to Washington, D.C., where she taught and wrote several books, most of them for children. Her Georgetown neighborhood provided the backdrop for two of her most popular children’s books, “The People of Pineapple Place” and “The Prisoner of Pineapple Place.” Her most recent works were “Three Lives to Live” and “Travel Far, Pay No Fare.” She received several honors for her work, including an award from the International Reading Assn. Her father died in 1974. Her mother and husband are among her survivors. In Thetford, Vt., on Friday of cancer.