Daniel Ford
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Daniel Ford (1931 -) is an American author and journalist. The son of Patrick and Anne Ford, he was educated at public schools in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, the University of New Hampshire, and the University of Manchester in England. He served in the U.S. Army at Fort Bragg and in Orleans, France.
Following an apprenticeship at The Overseas Weekly in Frankfurt, Germany, he became a free-lance writer in Durham, New Hampshire. He received a Stern Fund Magazine Writers' Award (1964) for his dispatches from South Vietnam, published in The Nation; a Verville Fellowship (1989-90) at the National Air and Space Museum to work with Japanese accounts of the air war in Southeast Asia); and an Aviation - Space Writers' Association Award of Excellence (1992) for his history of the Flying Tigers. He is best known for his Flying Tigers research and for the Vietnam novel that became the Burt Lancaster film, Go Tell the Spartans.
Ford is a resident scholar at the University of New Hampshire and a master's degree candidate at King's College London. He writes for the Wall Street Journal and Air&Space/Smithsonian magazine. He soloed in the J-3 Piper Cub at the age of 68 and continues to fly as a sport pilot. Office: 433 Bay Road, Durham NH 03824 USA.
[edit] Non-fiction
- Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers (2007)
- Editor: The Lady and the Tigers, by Olga Greenlaw (2002)
- The Only War We've Got (2001)
- Glen Edwards: The Diary of a Bomber Pilot (1998)
- The Country Northward (1976)
[edit] Novels
- Michael's War (2003)
- Remains: A Story of the Flying Tigers (2000)
- The High Country Illuminator (1971)
- Incident at Muc Wa (1967; translated into Dutch; filmed as Go Tell the Spartans, 1976)
- Now Comes Theodora (1965)
