Laurence Gonzales

Laurence Gonzales is the bestselling author of Deep Survival and Flight 232. He has won numerous awards for his books and essays, including two National Magazine Awards, the Carl Sandburg Literary Award, and the Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists. For more than two decades, Gonzales has appeared as a keynote speaker before groups ranging from the Los Alamos National Laboratory to Exxon-Mobil, and from the Wilderness Medical Society to the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to name a few. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.