Wilbur Cross (author)
American author (1918–2019)
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Wilbur Lucius Cross III (August 17, 1918 – March 4, 2019) was an American author who had over 50 books to his credit.[1][2] He was the grandson of Wilbur Lucius Cross. He spent 10 years as an editor at Life.
August 17, 1918
Wilbur Cross | |
|---|---|
| Born | Wilbur Lucius Cross III August 17, 1918 Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | March 4, 2019 (aged 100) |
| Alma mater | Yale University |
| Occupation | Author |
| Spouse | Esther Wilkinson |
Early life and education
Cross wrote mini books for his friends at an early age.[3] He graduated from Kent School in 1937 and Yale University.[4] Upon graduation from Yale, he served in the United States Army and became a captain,[4] and served in the Pacific theater during World War II for 39 months with communications, radar and photo units.[4]
Career
After serving in the army, he worked for an ad agency where he was a copy writer.[3] He became a senior editor for Continental Oil Company, where he wrote CONOCO, The First One Hundred Years.[4]
As a free-lance writer in the 1950s and 1960s, he interviewed General Umberto Nobile and survivors of airship Italia, which crashed in the arctic in 1928, for an article in True magazine.[5] This became the basis for the book, Disaster at the Pole.[5]
He died on March 4, 2019, at the age of 100.[6]
