Alfred Mark Lansing (July 21, 1921 – August 27, 1975) was an American journalist and writer, best known for his book Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (1959), an account of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic explorations.
After serving in the U.S. Navy from 1940 to 1946, where he received a Purple Heart, he enrolled at North Park College and later at Northwestern University, where he majored in journalism.
[2] He edited a weekly newspaper in Illinois until 1949, when he joined the United Press and in 1952 became a freelance writer.
Lansing is best known for his best-selling book Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, the account of the failed Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew to the South Pole in 1914.
[5] While he was writing Endurance, Lansing lived in Sea Cliff, Long Island, with his wife, Barbara, son Angus, and daughter, Holly.