Daniel Ford

For the British/South African writer, see Daniel Ford (editor and writer).
Daniel Ford
Born1931 (age 92–93)
Arlington, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation
  • Journalist
  • novelist
  • historian
EducationBrewster Academy
University of New Hampshire (AB)
University of Manchester
King's College London (MA)
ParentsPatrick 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 U.S. Army at 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 The Wall Street Journal, Michigan War Studies Review, and Air&Space/Smithsonian magazine; maintains the Warbird's Forum,[5] Piper Cub Forum,[6] and Reading Proust[7] websites; and blogs on Daniel Ford's Blog.[8] He soloed in a J-3 Piper Cub at the age of 68 and flew as a sport pilot until he turned 80.[9]

  1. ^ Who's Who in America 2010, vol 1, p1500
  2. ^ Who's Who in America 2010
  3. ^ Daniel Ford, Incident at Muc Wa (Doubleday, 1967) ISBN 0-595-08927-5
  4. ^ "The Write Stuff," University of New Hampshire Magazine, Spring 2014, p43
  5. ^ "warbirdforum.com". warbirdforum.com. Retrieved 2013-11-09.
  6. ^ "pipercubforum.com". pipercubforum.com. Retrieved 2013-11-09.
  7. ^ "readingproust.com". readingproust.com. Retrieved 2013-11-09.
  8. ^ wimw-ford.blogspot.com
  9. ^ "The Write Stuff." University of New Hampshire Magazine