Wilbur Lucius Cross III (August 17, 1918 – March 4, 2019) was an American author with over 50 books to his credit.
Cross wrote mini books for his friends at an early age.
[4] He served in the Pacific theater during World War II for 39 months with communications, radar and photo units.
[3] He became a senior editor for Continental Oil Company, where he wrote CONOCO, The First One Hundred Years.
[4] As a free-lance writer in the 1950s and 1960s, he interviewed General Umberto Nobile and survivors of airship Italia, which crashed in the arctic in 1928, for an article in True magazine.