Rinker Buck

Rinker Buck is an American author and journalist best known for his bestselling memoirs Flight of Passage (1997), recounting a cross-country flight he took with his brother at ages 15 and 17, and The Oregon Trail, detailing a modern journey along the historic route in a covered wagon. He began his career at the Berkshire Eagle and as a staff writer for the Hartford Courant, contributing to publications like Vanity Fair, New York, and Life, earning awards such as the Eugene S. Pulliam National Journalism Writing Award. Buck has also written about aviation history in If We Have Wings and his Mississippi River flatboat adventure in Life on the Mississippi.