Reeve Lindbergh is the youngest daughter of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh and the author of numerous books for children and adults. In 1998, she published Under a Wing: A Memoir about growing up in the Lindbergh family.

In Under a Wing, as in the essay "Flying," Lindbergh reflects on her father's personality and his influence on her and on others. As a girl, she only gradually came to realize how much of a historical figure her father was. She says, "I grew to realize it through other people and through seeing pictures of him in places where you wouldn't expect to see your father, like your sixth-grade history book. All of a sudden, you're reading and studying and there's your father."