Posts: 148
From: Cardiff, S. Wales, UK
Registered: Apr 2006

posted January 16, 2010 05:22 PM               

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Does anyone know if John Young has written books yet or anyone who are writing books about astronaut John Young? I would be very grateful for anyone who will help me out...

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From: Auburn, Alabama, United States
Registered: Aug 2009

posted January 21, 2010 08:33 PM               

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If you're interested in a book solely devoted to John Young, only one juvenile biography fits that description. That book, written by Paul Westman in 1981 and intended for 9 to 12 year old children, is listed on Amazon.com. It's only 54 pages long.

Since no adult book length biography yet exists on Young, I am interested in hopefully writing a Ph.D. dissertation on his career in a few years.

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From: Auburn, Alabama, United States
Registered: Aug 2009

posted June 01, 2010 10:14 AM               

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The memoir project with Dr. Hansen is still very much in progress. A publisher remains to be found and thus there is still no release date, but this book will almost certainly be released in the near future.

My dream remains to become a John Young scholar myself. I would still like to write a scholarly biography for my Auburn Ph.D. dissertation and then release it in book form. I'll just have to read the memoir first, and then figure out how much I could add to the study of his career. I hope someday both the memoir and a biography of my own will be on the market.

I have already written 65 pages about the man, on my own time as an Auburn graduate student. I have it saved as a Microsoft Word document and I would be more than happy to share it as an e-mail attachment if anybody is interested. I would also love to interview subjects close to him for a biography. On that note, I have a question: does anybody know if his first wife Barbara is still around?