Class of: 1978

Robert Campbell

Robert Campbell (Wheelock’78) of The Villages, Fla., self-published Flyabout (2018), which he says he wrote “during my recent ‘semiretirement’ from Salem State University’s computer science department.” The novel was inspired by the story of Juliane Koepcke, the sole survivor of a plane crash in 1971 who spent a week alone in the Amazon. In his novel, two people survive an airplane crash in the Australian Outback. “When rescue never comes,” Robert writes, “they undertake a deadly gamble—a hike across the searing Outback in search of civilization.”

From the Fall 2019 issue.