Larry Duthie
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Larry Duthie

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Larry Duthie is a retired award-winning newspaper editor and publisher. During his writing career, he also did some freelance work. His memoir, Return to Saigon, is his first published book. It centers around his years as a naval aviator during the Vietnam War, when he flew 137 combat missions. In July, 1967, as the air war entered its most intense period, he was shot down near Hanoi. After the war he was briefly a ski bum in Aspen, then returned to college. There he met his wife. At the University of Colorado he earned a bachelor of science degree in journalism, graduating with honors. After bicycling in Europe for a summer, he and his wife purchased the smallest weekly newspaper in Colorado, The Silverton Standard & The Miner situated at 9,300 feet elevation in the Rockies. They moved on to newspaper ownership in Northern California and then the San Juan Islands in Washington. Ever since his grandmother took him aloft in her airplane at age five, he has loved aviation. Following his Navy career, while in college, he was a sailplane tow-pilot. Later he owned a series of small airplanes. He interrupted his newspaper career in 1997 to cruise the west coast of Mexico on a 42-foot sailboat. He and his wife lived on the boat for two and a half years, putting more than 6,000 miles under its keel. When they returned to the United States, they briefly owned a small aerial advertising company. With two biplanes and an aging Cessna 180, the firm towed advertising banners along the coast of Southern California until September 11, 2001, when all such flying operations were halted. He then returned to his newspaper career, finishing as publisher of a daily community newspaper. He continues to write and is now at work on a creative non-fiction book about his grandmother, who in the late 1920s left her husband to learn to fly. She bought an airplane and then barnstormed with a flying circus, becoming a wing-walker. Larry Duthie and his wife live on a small farm at the base of the Blue Mountains in Eastern Washington, where he writes and restores classic cars and she drives the tractors. They have two adult children and two grandsons. “We have always managed to live and work in magnificent settings,” he says.
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