Background
Rinker Buck was born on December 29, 1950 Morristown, New Jersey, United States to the family of Mary Patricia Kernahan and political activist and Look Magazine publisher Thomas Francis Buck. He has five brothers and five sisters.
Rinker Buck graduated from Bowdoin College in 1973.
(Writer Rinker Buck looks back more than 30 years to a sum...)
Writer Rinker Buck looks back more than 30 years to a summer when he and his brother, at ages 15 and 17 respectively, became the youngest duo to fly across America, from New Jersey to California. Having grown up in an aviation family, the two boys bought an old Piper Cub, restored it themselves, and set out on the grand journey. Buck is a great storyteller, and once you get airborne with the boys you find yourself absorbed in a story of adventure and family drama. And Flight of Passage is also an affecting look back to the summer of 1966, when the times seemed much less cynical and adventures much more enjoyable.
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1997
(The story of the men, women, and machines that changed th...)
The story of the men, women, and machines that changed the world by turning a dream of flying into a thrilling reality is enhanced by dozens of interactive elements including letters, diaries, tickets, stickers, and other delights for flying enthusiasts.
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2001
(The classic coming-of-age memoir from the author of the #...)
The classic coming-of-age memoir from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Oregon Trail, about a special time in every young adult’s life - the first “real” job out of college. Ask Rinker Buck about his first job, and you’ll get the enchanting and engaging account that not only captures the experience of being a “twenty-two-year-old with the maxed-out brain,” but also evokes a special time and place: the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts in the early 1970s. As a recent grad, Buck was determined to find his voice as a writer and every moment felt like a new world opening wide. His memoir First Job is, on its most basic level, the story of Buck’s years as a cub reporter at The Berkshire Eagle, a great country newspaper in its glory years. But on a deeper level, it is a story that serves as a paradigm for everyone’s first job. Buck’s tale introduces the mentors who guided him through a raw and anxious time, lovers who exposed him to new levels of intimacy, and adventures that could only have happened to a young man who didn’t know any better. From Buck’s impromptu job interview with the Eagle’s venerable and eccentric publisher, Pete Miller - who quizzed him on Civil War history - to his picaresque adventures on the front lines of the sexual revolution, to his exhilarating hikes along the purple-black Berkshire peaks with Roger Linscott, he reconstructs a magical time in his life, a time when nothing seemed impossible or out of reach. The first job experience and its meaning may be vastly underrated and misunderstood, but Buck shows that it is as timely and important as any other life passage. First jobs are our baptism into the real world, our immersion in to the real “stuff” of life. Everyone has a first job, and with rare storytelling power and emotions laid bare, Rinker Buck brings back just how it felt.
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2002
(On March 21, 2003, while leading a rifle platoon into com...)
On March 21, 2003, while leading a rifle platoon into combat, Marine Lieutenant Shane Childers became the first combat fatality of the Iraq War. In this gripping, beautifully written personal history, award-winning writer Rinker Buck chronicles Shane's death and his life, exploring its meaning for his family, his fellow soldiers, and the country itself. It is the story of an intelligent, gifted soldier who embodied the soul of today's all-volunteer warrior class; of the town of Powell, Wyoming, which had taken Shane into its heart; and of the Marine detail sent to deliver the news to the Childers family and the extraordinary connection that formed between them. At once an inspiring account of commitment to the military and a moving story of family and devotion, Shane Comes Home rises above politics to capture the life of a remarkable young man who came to symbolize the heart of America during a difficult time.
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2006
(Rinker Buck’s The Oregon Trail is an epic account of trav...)
Rinker Buck’s The Oregon Trail is an epic account of traveling the 2,000-mile length of the Oregon Trail the old-fashioned way - in a covered wagon with a team of mules - that has captivated readers, critics, and booksellers from coast to coast. Simultaneously a majestic journey across the West, a significant work of history, and a moving personal saga, Buck’s chronicle is a “laugh-out-loud masterpiece” (Willamette Week) that “so ensnares the emotions it becomes a tear-jerker at its close” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis) and “will leave you daydreaming and hungry to see this land” (The Boston Globe).
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2015
Rinker Buck was born on December 29, 1950 Morristown, New Jersey, United States to the family of Mary Patricia Kernahan and political activist and Look Magazine publisher Thomas Francis Buck. He has five brothers and five sisters.
Rinker Buck graduated from Bowdoin College in 1973.
Rinker Buck, who was fifteen, and his elder brother Kernahan, seventeen, flew from their home in New Vernon, New Jersey to California, with the blessings of their father Tom, a former daredevil pilot. The trip took five days and set the record for the youngest aviators to fly coast to coast, earning the brothers celebrity status. The flight is the subject of Buck's 1997 memoir Flight of Passage.
Buck's first job was writing for the Berkshire Eagle in 1973. He then served as a reporter for New York, Life, Hartford Courant, Adweek and several other national periodicals. His first book, Flight of Passage, released in 1997 documents his cross-country flight in 1966 with his brother Kern.
(The story of the men, women, and machines that changed th...)
2001(Rinker Buck’s The Oregon Trail is an epic account of trav...)
2015(Writer Rinker Buck looks back more than 30 years to a sum...)
1997(The classic coming-of-age memoir from the author of the #...)
2002(On March 21, 2003, while leading a rifle platoon into com...)
2006Quotations: “I still don’t know why my father let us do it. ’My father was a dreamer, a magnificent dreamer,’ and we were very much his boys and became dreamers too, which negated all practical considerations.”
Rinker Buck describes himself as an inherited dreamer.
Rinker Buck married Amelia de Neergaard. They have a daughter Sara.