Alfred Lansing
American journalist and writer
Alfred Lansing was a journalist from Chicago who wrote Endurance, the 1959 account of Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expeditions.
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American Born 1921 in Chicago, United States Died 1975
About Alfred Lansing
Lansing was born in Chicago on July 21, 1921, and died in 1975. He wrote for magazines including Collier's and later worked as an editor at Time, Inc. Books. He served in the US Navy from 1940 to 1946 and received the Purple Heart. He then studied at North Park College and Northwestern University. In 1957 he became a member of the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge, England. His book Endurance (1959) tells the story of Shackleton's Antarctic explorations.