Daniel Ford
Daniel Ford | |
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Born | 1931 (age 92–93) Arlington, Massachusetts, U.S. |
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Nationality | American |
Education | Brewster Academy University of New Hampshire (AB) University of Manchester King's College London (MA) |
Parents | Patrick Ford Anne Ford |
Daniel Ford (born 1931 in Arlington, Massachusetts) is an American journalist, novelist, and historian. The son of Patrick and Anne Ford, he attended public schools in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, graduating in 1950 from Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. He was educated at the University of New Hampshire (A.B. Political Science 1954), the University of Manchester (Fulbright Scholar, Modern European History 1954–55), and King's College London (M.A. War Studies 2010).[1]
Ford served in the
Fort Bragg and in Orléans, 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.[2] He is best known for his Flying Tigers research, and for the 1967 Vietnam novel Incident at Muc Wa[3] that became the Burt Lancaster film Go Tell the Spartans.[4]
Ford is a resident scholar at the University of New Hampshire. He writes for Piper Cub at the age of 68 and flew as a sport pilot until he turned 80.[9]
Non-fiction
- Looking Back From Ninety: The Depression, the War, and the Good Life That Followed ISBN 978-1732230026
- Cowboy: The Interpreter Who Became a Soldier, a Warlord, and One More Casualty of Our War in Vietnam ISBN 978-1732230002
- Editor: The Greater America: An Epic Journey Through a Vibrant New CountryISBN 978-1544938301
- Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942ISBN 978-0-69-273473-5
- Poland's Daughter: How I Met Basia, Hitchhiked to Italy, and Learned About Love, War, and ExileISBN 978-1494729899
- A Vision So Noble: John Boyd, the OODA Loop, and America's War on TerrorISBN 978-1-4515-8981-8
- Editor: The Lady and the Tigers: Remembering the Flying Tigers of World War II,ISBN 978-0-595-22234-6
- The Only War We've Got: Early Days in South VietnamISBN 978-1479194728
- Glen Edwards: The Diary of a Bomber PilotISBN 978-1-56098-571-6
- The Country Northward (1976, 2010) ISBN 978-1-4528-3092-6
Novels
- Michael's War: A Story of the Irish Republican ArmyISBN 978-1508852001
- Remains: A Story of the Flying TigersISBN 978-1492779506
- The High Country Illuminator: A Tale of Light and Darkness and the Ski Bums of AvalonISBN 978-1481854764
- Incident at Muc Wa: A Story of the Vietnam WarISBN 978-1478178187
- Now Comes TheodoraISBN 978-0595089178
References
- ^ Who's Who in America 2010, vol 1, p1500
- ^ Who's Who in America 2010
- ISBN 0-595-08927-5
- ^ "The Write Stuff," University of New Hampshire Magazine, Spring 2014, p43
- ^ "warbirdforum.com". warbirdforum.com. Retrieved 2013-11-09.
- ^ "pipercubforum.com". pipercubforum.com. Retrieved 2013-11-09.
- ^ "readingproust.com". readingproust.com. Retrieved 2013-11-09.
- ^ wimw-ford.blogspot.com
- ^ "The Write Stuff." University of New Hampshire Magazine
- ^ "Daniel Ford: Looking Back From Ninety: The Depression, the War, and the Good Life That Followed". danfordbooks.com. Retrieved 2021-11-21.
- ^ "Daniel Ford: Cowboy: The Interpreter Who Became a Soldier, a Warlord, and One More Casualty of Our War in Vietnam". danfordbooks.com. Retrieved 2018-06-05.
- ^ "Daniel Ford, editor: The Greater America: An Epic Journey Through a Vibrant New Country, by Ralph D. Paine". danfordbooks.com. Retrieved 2017-05-10.
- ^ "Daniel Ford: Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942". danfordbooks.com. Retrieved 2016-07-05.
- ^ "Daniel Ford: Poland's Daughter". danfordbooks.com. 2013-12-13. Retrieved 2013-12-21.
- ^ "Daniel Ford: John Boyd, insurgency, and counterinsurgency". Warbirdforum.com. 2001-09-11. Retrieved 2013-11-09.
- ^ "Olga Greenlaw: The Lady and the Tigers". Warbirdforum.com. Retrieved 2013-11-09.
- ^ "Daniel Ford, The Only War We've Got: Early Days in South Vietnam". Warbirdforum.com. Retrieved 2013-11-09.
- ^ "Glen Edwards: The Diary of a Bomber Pilot". Warbirdforum.com. 1998-10-01. Retrieved 2013-11-09.
- ^ "Michael's War: a story of the Irish Republican Army". Warbird Books. Retrieved 2013-11-09.
- ^ "Daniel Ford: Remains (a story of the Flying Tigers)". Warbird Books. Retrieved 2022-07-24.
- ^ "Daniel Ford: The High Country Illuminator". Doubleday, Warbird Books. Retrieved 2022-07-24.
- ^ "Incident at Muc Wa (Go Tell the Spartans) by Daniel Ford". Doubleday, Warbird Books. Retrieved 2022-07-24.
- ^ "Daniel Ford: Now Comes Theodora". Doubleday, Warbird Books. Retrieved 2022-07-24.