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William Langewiesche
American journalist
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- born
- 1955
- died
- 2025
- age at death
- 70
- known for
- journalist, writer, aircraft pilot
1955 – 2025

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who william langewiesche is
William Archibald Langewiesche was an American author, journalist and commercial pilot. After taking part in aviation and flying airplanes he worked with a large-circulation aviation publication, Flying. As an author and journalist he worked as a correspondent for 16 years with The Atlantic and 13 years with Vanity Fair magazine. From 2019 until his death in 2025, he was a writer at large for The New York Times Magazine. He was the author of nine books and the winner of two National Magazine Awards.
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