Murphy Visiting Writer Mark Vanhoenacker: Public Reading

Mark Vanhoenacker is a commercial airline pilot for British Airways and the author of the international bestseller Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot and How to Land a Plane. A columnist for The Financial Times and a regular contributor to The New York Times, he has also written for The Times, The Atlantic, Wired, and the Los Angeles Times. Born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Vanhoenacker trained as a historian and worked as a management consultant before starting his flight training in Britain in 2001. He now flies the Boeing 787 Dreamliner from London to cities around the world. Find more at www.markvanhoenacker.com.