Daniel Ford (born 1931 in Arlington, Massachusetts) is an American journalist, novelist, and historian.

Political Science 1954), the University of Manchester (Fulbright Scholar, Modern European History 1954–55), and King's College London (M.A.

He received a Stern Fund Magazine Writers' Award (1964) for his dispatches from South Vietnam, published in The Nation; a Verville Fellowship (1989–90) at the National Air and Space Museum to work with Japanese accounts of the air war in Southeast Asia; and an Aviation - Space Writers' Association Award of Excellence (1992) for his history of the Flying Tigers.

[2] He is best known for his Flying Tigers research, and for the 1967 Vietnam novel Incident at Muc Wa[3] that became the Burt Lancaster film Go Tell the Spartans.

He writes for The Wall Street Journal, Michigan War Studies Review, and Air&Space/Smithsonian magazine; maintains the Warbird's Forum,[5] Piper Cub Forum,[6] and Reading Proust[7] websites; and blogs on Daniel Ford's Blog.