Anne Morrow Lindbergh (Twayne's United States Authors Series) [Hardcover]

David Kirk Vaughan (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 138 pages
• Publisher: Twayne Pub (September 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 080577520X
• ISBN-13: 978-0805775204
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,404,251 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Graduated from the Air Force Academy in 1962 and completed a twenty-year career in the Air Force. Flew cargo and training aircraft in Strategic Air Command and Tactical Air Command, including a 15-month tour flying C-130s in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. Received MA from the University of Michigan and PhD from the University of Washington. Has taught classes in composition, technical communication, and literature at the Air Force Academy, the University of Maine, the Air Force Institute of Technology, and Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman. Published a number of books in the area of aviation literature and history, including Anne Morrow Lindbergh: A Study of Her Writings (Twayne, 1988); An American Pilot in the Skies of France: The Diaries and Letters of Percival Gates, 1917-1919 (Wright State University Press, 1992); Runway Visions: An American C-130 Pilot's Memoir of Combat Airlift Operations in Southeast Asia, 1967-1968 (McFarland, 1998); and Flying for the Air Service: The Hughes Brothers in World War I (Popular Press/University of Wisconsin Press, 1998). He was co-author, with Cecil Foster, of Foster's Air Force memoir, MiG Alley to Mu Ghia Pass: Memoirs of a Korean War Ace (McFarland, 2001). Most recent book is Words to Measure a War: Nine American Poets of World War II (McFarland, 2009). His next book, Letters from a War Bird: The World War I Correspondence of Elliott White Springs, will be published by the University of South Carolina Press in 2012. Plans to write at least three novels, though he has yet to complete one.