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Scranton, Pennsylvania>Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.201948|17}}| death_place = | spouse = Esther Wilkinson| children = | parents =| alma_mater = Yale University| party = | footnotes = }}Wilbur Lucius Cross III (August 17, 1918 – March 4, 2019) was an American author with over 50 books to his credit.Blog at WordPress.com.McKinney, Don. "Latest works by author detail submarines, zeppelins", The Island Packet, Hilton Head Island, Bluffton, South Carolina, volume 33, June 8, 2003, Lowcountry, page 4-D. {{subscription required}} He spent 10 years as an editor at Life. He was the grandson of Wilbur Lucius Cross.

Early life and education

Cross wrote mini books for his friends at an early age.Paprocki, Justin. "A love for Gullah", The Island Packet, Hilton Head Island, Bluffton, South Carolina, volume 42, February 10, 2012, LowcountryLife Arts & Culture, page 1C. {{subscription required}} He graduated from Kent School in 1937 and Yale University.Oravec, Joseph. "Cross Authors Weekend Education Book", The Sunday Times, Scranton, Pennsylvania, volume 11, number 15, May 2, 1976, page A-9. {{subscription required}}Upon graduation from Yale, he served in the United States Army and became a captain. He served in the Pacific theater during World War II for 39 months with communications, radar and photo units.

Career

After serving in the army, he worked for an ad agency where he was a copy writer. He became a senior editor for Continental Oil Company, where he wrote CONOCO, The First One Hundred Years.As a free-lance writer in the 1950s and 1960s, he interviewed General Umberto Nobile and survivors of airship Italia, which crashed in the artic pole in 1928, for an article in True magazine.Ackerman, Jerry. "'Pole' chronicles 'strange and unreal' Arctic airship disaster", The Knoxville News-Sentinel, Knoxville, Tennessee, issue 37,470, October 22, 2000, page G8. {{subscription required}} This became the basis for the book, Disaster at the Pole.He died in March 2019 at the age of 100.Wilbur Cross obituary

Books

• Challengers of the Deep
• Disaster at the Pole
• Encyclopedia of American Submarines (2003)
• Gullah Culture in America (2012)
• Zeppelins of World War I (2003)

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