William Langewiesche

William Archibald Langewiesche (/lɑːŋ.ɡəˈvi.ʃə/; June 12, 1955 – June 15, 2025) 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.

Langewiesche wrote articles covering a wide range of topics from shipbreaking, wine critics, the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, modern ocean piracy, nuclear proliferation, and the World Trade Center cleanup. It was said of him that he wrote with "clear, poetic precision" and "elevated non-fiction writing to an art form".