| Occupation: | Author |
| Birth Name: | Wilbur Lucius Cross III |
| Birth Date: | 17 August 1918 |
| Birth Place: | Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Spouse: | Esther Wilkinson |
| Alma Mater: | Yale University |
Wilbur Lucius Cross III (August 17, 1918 – March 4, 2019) was an American author with over 50 books to his credit.[1] [2] He spent 10 years as an editor at Life. He was the grandson of Wilbur Lucius Cross.
Cross wrote mini books for his friends at an early age.[3] He graduated from Kent School in 1937 and Yale University.[4]
Upon graduation from Yale, he served in the United States Army and became a captain.[4] He served in the Pacific theater during World War II for 39 months with communications, radar and photo units.[4]
After serving in the army, he worked for an ad agency where he was a copy writer.[3] He became a senior editor for Continental Oil Company, where he wrote CONOCO, The First One Hundred Years.[4]
As a free-lance writer in the 1950s and 1960s, he interviewed General Umberto Nobile and survivors of airship Italia, which crashed in the arctic in 1928, for an article in True magazine.[5] This became the basis for the book, Disaster at the Pole.[5]
He died in March 2019 at the age of 100.[6]