author
Haywood Leslie Davis
b. 1900
Best known for a 1918 children's introduction to flight, this little-known writer captured the excitement of early aviation for young readers. The surviving record is slim, which makes the book itself the clearest window into his work.
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Aviation Book
by Haywood Leslie Davis
About the author
Haywood Leslie Davis is credited as the author of Aviation Book, a juvenile nonfiction title published in New York by McLoughlin Brothers in 1918. Library and ebook records identify him as born in 1900, and the book has remained traceable through sources such as the Library of Congress, Project Gutenberg, and the Internet Archive.
Very little biographical information appears to survive beyond those catalog records. Based on the publication date, he would have been remarkably young when Aviation Book appeared, which suggests he may have written for younger readers in a direct, accessible style.
Because so few personal details are readily documented, he is remembered mainly through that early aviation title and its place in the popular enthusiasm for flight in the years just after aviation began to capture the public imagination.