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Clayton Knight
1891–1969
A pilot, painter, and storyteller, he brought the drama of early aviation to life on the page as vividly as he had seen it in the air. His career joined firsthand flying experience with illustration, comics, and writing about aircraft and wartime service.
2 Audiobooks
We Were There at the Normandy Invasion
by Clayton Knight
The non-stop stowaway : The story of a long distance flight
by Clayton Knight
About the author
Born in Rochester, New York, in 1891, Clayton Knight trained as an artist in Chicago before becoming deeply involved with aviation. During World War I he served as an aviator, and that experience shaped much of the work he became known for later.
After the war, he built a career as an aviation artist, illustrator, and author. He helped create the aviation comic strip Ace Drummond and became especially associated with pictures and writing that captured the machines, excitement, and risks of flight.
Knight is also remembered for helping found the Clayton Knight Committee, which assisted American volunteers who wanted to join the Royal Canadian Air Force before the United States formally entered World War II. He died in 1969, leaving behind a body of work that connects aviation history with popular illustration.