About Richard Bach
Richard David Bach is an American writer. He has written numerous flight-related works of fiction and non-fiction. His works include Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970) and Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977), both of which were among the 1970s' biggest sellers. Bach's first airplane flight occurred at age 14, when his mother was campaigning for a seat on the council of Long Beach, California. Bach and Garrison first met when Bach wrote articles for Avian, Garrison's aviation publication. In 1963 Bach published his first book, Stranger to the Ground, which describes a mission flight he undertook from Wethersfield, England, to Chaumont, France. Most of Bach's books involve flight in some way, from the early stories which are purely about flying aircraft, to Stranger to the Ground, his first book, to his later works, in which he used flight as a philosophical metaphor.
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