Bach’s further writing explored themes he touched on in Jonathan Livingston Seagull, and in 1977, he published a book called Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah. The book became a bestseller, and sold over a million copies in the year 1972 alone. In 1970, Bach’s life changed again when he sold the manuscript for a novel called Jonathan Livingston Seagull to Macmillan Publishers. After his time in the service, he continued working as a writer and editor for flight-centric publications and aircraft companies. As a young man, Bach served in the United States Navy and the National Guard as a fighter pilot. After his first airplane trip at the age of fifteen, Bach’s life was forever changed, and he became obsessed with the freeing phenomenon of flight. Richard Bach was born in the 1936 in Oak Park, Illinois.
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