An American journalist who wrote for Collier’s, among other magazines and was later an editor for Time, Inc. Books.
Alfred Lansing served in the US Navy from 1940-46. He received the Purple Heart for his wartime service.
Later he attended North Park College, 1946-48, Northwestern University, 1948-50.
Lansing became a member of the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, England in 1957.
Books in order of publication:
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage (1959)
Drugs (Series: LIFE Science Library) with Walter Modell (1967)
Oak Lawn Library Friends 