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Highlights
- Stephen Kirk details the influence of the Outer Banks on the Wright Brothers' quest for flight.
- About the Author: Stephen Kirk was an editor at John F. Blair, Publisher, for 27 years.
- 356 Pages
- Biography + Autobiography, Historical
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About the Book
In First in Flight, author Stephen Kirk describes in marvelous detail the undeniable influence that the landscape and people of the Outer Banks had on the Wright Brothers' quest for flight.
Book Synopsis
Stephen Kirk details the influence of the Outer Banks on the Wright Brothers' quest for flight.
About the Author
Stephen Kirk was an editor at John F. Blair, Publisher, for 27 years. He has a B.A. from St. Lawrence University and an M.F.A. from UNC-Greensboro. A story he wrote while working on his M.F.A. appeared in the Greensboro Review and was subsequently selected by John Updike for reprinting in the Best American Short Stories series. Since then, he has written First in Flight: The Wright Brothers in North Carolina and Scribblers: Stalking the Authors of Appalachia. He lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.