Don Dwiggins

Don Dwiggins was an American journalist and author, specializing in aviation.

Dwiggins was born on November 13, 1918, in Plainfield, New Jersey. During World War II, he joined the United States Army Air Forces and worked as a flight instructor with the Royal Air Force. Beginning in the late 1940s, Dwiggins worked as a free-lance journalist and editor, working for a variety of Los Angeles-based publications. A prolific author, he wrote numerous articles for aviation magazines, and authored several dozen books, most of them focusing on aviation history. Between 1974 and 1982, he was a senior editor and columnist for ''Plane & Pilot'' magazine.

He was married to author Olga Arabsky, and had two children, Don Lindsay and Toni Kay. Dwiggins was killed in an automobile accident on December 10, 1988, along the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, California. He had just finished work on a four-volume history of American aviation. Provided by Wikipedia