L. F. Hutcheon

Born in 1897, Lessel Finer Hutcheon was an American author remembered chiefly for his writing about aviation during the First World War.

He is associated with Chiroptera: A Book of Letters, published in 1917. The book gathers lively letters, poems, and observations shaped by his experience as a young aviator, and it stands out for its firsthand feel and informal voice.

Although not a widely documented literary figure today, Hutcheon remains of interest to readers of wartime memoir, early flight history, and personal writing from the 1910s. His surviving work preserves the mood of a moment when flying was still new, risky, and full of romance.