Dexter Ford

Dexter Ford

Dexter Ford is a Contributing Editor to The New York Times. He writes about history, aviation, adventure travel, motorcycles, the auto industry, architecture and sustainable energy. He has flown upside-down with the Blue Angels, ridden motorcycles through Russia, across China and over the Andes, and dived at night with 10-foot manta rays. The most captivating story he has ever told is that of his friend Henry Oster, his co-author in their heartbreaking, inspiring memoir, The Kindness of the Hangman.