Light This Candle: The Life & Times of Alan Shepard--America's First Spaceman (72 page)

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Authors: Neal Thompson

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

NEAL THOMPSON is a ve
teran news reporter who has worked for the
Baltimore Sun, St. Petersburg Times,
and
Philadelphia Inquirer.
As a freelance journa
list, he has written for
Outside
magazine,
Men’s Health, Backpacker,
and the
Washington Post
magazine. He lives wi
th his wife and their two sons in Asheville, North Carolina, wh
ere he teaches at the University of North Carolina and is writi
ng a book about moonshine, NASCAR, and the South. Visit his website at
www.nealthompson.com
.

Copyright © 2004 by Neal Thompson

Foreword copyright © 2005 by Chris Kraft

 

All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Three Rivers Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a divisio
n of Random House, In
c., New York.
www.crownpublishing.com

 

Three Rivers Press and the Tugboat design are registered tradem
arks of Random House, Inc.

 

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Thompson, Neal.
Light this candle: th
e life and times of
Alan Shepard / Neal T
hompson.—1st ed.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Shepard, Alan B. (
Alan Bartlett), 1923– 2. Astronauts—
United States—Biography. I. Title.
TL789.85 .S5T
629.45’0092—
dc22 2003015688

 

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