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Homer Hadley Hickam Jr.; born on February 19, 1943. is an American author, Vietnam War veteran, and former NASA engineer who prepared Japan for junior space travelers. His 1998 diary, Rocket boy, was a New York Times hit and was the inspiration for the 1999 film October Sky.
Hickam has been writing since his return from Vietnam in 1969. First, he generally wrote about his scuba diving for a wide range of magazines. Then, at that point, after jumping into numerous ship wrecks, he started writing about the fights with U-boats along the U.S. East Coast during World War II. This event prompted his most memorable military history book, Torpedo Junction
Rocket Boy Comes Home: A Q&A with Homer Hickam - November 5, 2021
Rocket Boy Comes Home: A Q&A with Homer Hickam - November 5, 2021
Other Books
Other Books
Torpedo Junction, published in 1989
Back to the Moon, published in 1999
The Coalwood Way, published in 2000
Sky of Stone, published in 2001
We Are Not Afraid, published in 2002
The Keeper’s Son, published in 2003
The Ambassador's Son, published in 2005
The Far Reaches, published in 2007
Red Helmet, Published in 2008
The Dinosaur Hunter, published in 2010
Crater, published 2012
Crescent, published 2013
Crater Trueblood and the lunar rescue company, published 2014
Carrying Albert Home, published 2015
Don't blow yourself up, published in 2021
Sources
“Homer Hickam.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 28 Oct. 2023, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Hickam
“Share Homer Hickam.” Encyclopedia, www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/371#:~:text=Author%20Homer%20Hadley%20Hickam%20Jr,in%20industrial%20engineering. Accessed 3 Nov. 2023.
“About Homer.” HOMER HICKAM, 20 July 2021,https://homerhickam.com/about-homer/
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