Anne Spencer Lindbergh; Daughter Of Aviator, Wrote Children's Books

THETFORD, Vt. - Anne Spencer Lindbergh, a writer, teacher and the elder daughter of aviator Charles A. Lindbergh, has died of cancer, her family said. She was 53.

Ms. Lindbergh, who died Friday, was one of six children of Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and was born eight years after the sensational kidnapping and killing of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr.

After living and 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 Association.

In 1987, she moved to Vermont and taught for several years at the Riverside School in Lyndonville.

Her father died in 1974.

Ms. Lindbergh is survived by her mother; husband Noel Perrin, a writer and professor of environmental studies at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H.; one son, a daughter, two stepdaughters, a sister and three brothers.