Tom Simmons is the author of four books: The Man Called Brown Condor, Forgotten Heroes of WWII, Escape from Archangel and By Accident of Birth. He has also written numerous magazine articles, including Growing Up With Mr. Faulkner, published in The Oxford American. Simmons grew up in Gulfport and attended Marion Military Institute, the U.S. Naval Academy, the University of Southern Mississippi and the University of Alabama. He has been a pilot since age 16, and participated in air shows, flying aerobatics in open-cockpit biplanes. In the late 1950s he served as an artillery officer in Korea. He resides in Gulfport.
