Rinker Buck (December 29, 1950) is an American author who is best known for his 1997 memoir Flight of Passage.
Rinker Buck was born and raised in Morristown, New Jersey, the fourth child of Mary Patricia Buck (née Kernahan) and political activist and Look Magazine publisher Thomas Francis Buck.
[2] In the winter of 1965–1966, Rinker (15) and his older brother Kernahan (17), a licensed pilot, devised a plan to rebuild their father's 1948 Piper PA-11 and fly it from Somerset Hills Airport (N64)[3] in Basking Ridge, New Jersey to Capistrano Airport (L38)[4] in San Juan Capistrano, California.
[6] Buck began his career in journalism shortly after graduating from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.
He then served as reporter for New York, Life, Hartford Courant, Adweek and several other national publications.