Author

Alfred Lansing

2 books, mostly history, for Blackstone Audio, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing, 2000–2008

Alfred Lansing (1921–1975) was an American journalist, editor, and nonfiction writer from Chicago. After serving in the U.S. Navy, he studied journalism at Northwestern University, edited a weekly Illinois newspaper, worked for United Press and Collier’s, and later became a freelance writer. He is best known for Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage (1959), a meticulously researched narrative built from interviews with surviving expedition members and their journals; he also coauthored Drugs (1967).