Pellegreno, Ann Holtgren

Ann Holtgren Pellegreno was raised in the Chicago area and graduated from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) with a degree in music. In 1967, while an English teacher in Michigan, Pellegreno piloted a rebuilt 1937 Lockheed Electra 10A around the world in commemoration of the thirty-year anniversary of Amelia Earhart's history flight. She documented her experience in her 1971 book, World Flight; The Earhart Trail (ISU Press).

Pellegreno moved to Iowa in 1969, and published Iowa Takes to the Air (Aerodrome Press, 1980), a two-volume history of aviation in Iowa. Pellegreno was inducted into the Iowa Aviation Hall of Fame in 1990.