Daniel Ford
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Daniel Ford 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 for dispatches from South Vietnam, published in The Nation (1964); a Verville Fellowship at the National Air and Space Museum to work with Japanese accounts of the air war in Southeast Asia (1989); and an Aviation - Space Writers' Association Award of Excellence for his history of the Flying Tigers (1991).
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. Office: 433 Bay Road, Durham NH 03824 USA.
[edit] Books
- Now Comes Theodora (1965)
- Incident at Muc Wa (1967; translated into Dutch; filmed as Go Tell the Spartans, 1976)
- The High Country Illuminator (1971)
- Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and the American Volunteer Group (1991)
- Glen Edwards: The Diary of a Bomber Pilot (1998)
- Remains: A Story of the Flying Tigers (2000)
- The Only War We've Got (2001)
- Michael's War (2003).
