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The author of Fate Is the Hunter and The High and the Mighty unrolls his adventures in the air, in Hollywood, in far-flung exotic places with irony, heart, and unsparing honesty. The stars of his life-story are his swashbuckling father, a great business success and world-traveler, and his long-suffering first wife Eleanor, an arthritis victim and drug addict (painkillers); his supporting players are a host of early birdmen and such luminaries as Duke Wayne, Clark Gable, William Wellman, and Sterling Hayden. Born in Nebraska, Gann went to work in a silent-film processing factory at 14, saved up strips of undeveloped film, joined them, and shot his first film, Sweet Sixteen--which was a local hit. After washing out of Culver Military Academy, he was dispatched around the world by his father on company business (phone equipment), then returned to try and find himself a place in the New York theater. The March of Time sent him into Hitler's Germany to film the persecution of Jewish schoolchildren, a task aided by a saucy Dutch beauty. A stint of filming in an open cockpit led him into his great love, flight; into work as an airline copilot; and at last into ferrying secret equipment fo

Author

Ernest Kellogg Gann

Publisher

Random House, Incorporated

Published

1978

Language

EN

ISBN

9780394499840

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Biography

Rating

4.34 / 5 (47 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14