The Wright Stuff
NPR’s Noah Adams takes a year off from cohosting “All Things Considered” to write a book about the Wright brothers.
By
Kathryn S. Wenner
Kathryn S. Wenner, a former AJR associate editor, is a copy editor at the Washington Post.
NPR gives Noah Adams, cohost of "All Things Considered," a one-year leave of absence to write yet another book, this one timed to be out by next year's 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers' first flight. "The Flyers: Orville and Wilbur 1903" will be Adams' fifth book in 15 years. He plans to interview people with personal or family connections to the brothers in their hometown of Dayton, Ohio, and in Le Mans, France, where Wilbur Wright won for the United States the international race to build the first airplane. And, naturally, Adams will spend time in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, site of the first flight and where the Wrights' story piqued his interest during a visit last November. What he learned there about the Wrights' endless, inspired tinkering in their Dayton bike shop, just 150 miles from Adams' hometown of Ashland, Kentucky, reminded him of his great-grandfather. And the anniversary is a perfect hook. His goal: "Finding the essence of these two guys." ###
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