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Born
in 1936 in Oak Park, Ill., son of Roland Robert and Ruth Helen
(Shaw) Bach, the American Richard Bach is the
great-great-great-great grand son of J.S. Bach the great composer
we all know. He attended Long Beach State College (now
California State University, Long Beach) in 1955.
An airplane pilot, he got married with his first wife and had six
children, then divorced and left his family in part because he
didn't believe in marriage. One of his children, Jonathan,
wrote a book about his relation with his father he never knew, Above
the Clouds. Everything concerning airplane was his
field, including motion picture stunt pilot, Air Force tactical
fighter pilot, an aviation technical writer and flight
instructor. He even got involved as an narrator & stunt
pilot in the movie Nothing by Chance, based on his book.
Though aviation was his true passion, he always wanted to write;
since
high school, one of his gym teachers made him realize his
potential. ince 1959 he had this idea of a bird learning to
pass beyond the walls of limitations, Jonathan Livingston Seagull,
which came through a "Cinerama on my wall." Almost
all his books used airplanes as a way to pass the message.
In Running From Safety, Bach shares with us his childhood:
at age 8, he lost one of his brother: Bobby. From his
book, we also know that he has a much older brother: Roy.
Bach met his wife, Leslie Parrish through the shooting of the
movie
Jonathan Livingston Seagull in 1973, based on his
book. It is said that
he sued the production for changing the movie without his
permission. In fact, those who saw the movie noticed that
his name wasn't mentioned, only the copyrights for the title Jonathan
Livingston Seagull.
Then they went their way, far enough from Hollywood, somewhere
between 1977 and 1981. Finally, they got married in '81.
Since then, Richard Bach tried what he called the closest thing to
flying: paragliding. Recently Leslie and Richard got
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Here
is the test to find whether
your mission on earth is
finished:
If you're alive, it isn't.
Richard
Bach |
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