Ernest K. Gann

Ernest K. Gann

October 13, 1910 – December 19, 1991
Countries: USA
Place of Birth: Lincoln, Nebraska
Place of Death: Friday Harbor, Washington

Ernest Kellogg Gann (October 13, 1910 – December 19, 1991) was an American aviator, author, sailor, and conservationist. He is known for his novels Island in the Sky and The High and the Mighty and his classic memoir of early commercial aviation Fate Is the Hunter, all of which were made into major motion pictures.