Lawrence David 'Larry' Kusche is an American author and pilot. He had been a commercial pilot, flight instructor, instrument-rated pilot, instrument instructor and librarian by the time he wrote The Bermuda Triangle Mystery - Solved and The Disappearance of Flight 19. Larry Kusche was born in Racine, Wisconsin, but grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. In the early 1970s he became interested in the Bermuda Triangle mystery while working as a librarian at Arizona State University, as he was confronted by numerous queries related to the Triangle. This prompted him to start gathering information from varied sources. When he began his research for the first book, he thought the Triangle truly was a mystery, but his research convinced him that virtually all the incidents had been caused by storms or accidents, or they happened far from the Triangle, or no proof could be found that they ever occurred at all. His conclusion was that the Triangle was a "manufactured mystery," the result of poor research and reporting, and occasionally, deliberate falsification of facts. 

November 1st, 1940 in (Age 84)