Robert J. Young The Vagabond Pilot and Sam Roberts author of The New Yorkers: 31 Remarkable People, 400 Years, and the Untold Biography of

Robert Young is a lawyer in Los Angeles pursuing his entrepreneurial dreams, flying his beloved Two Niner Lima about the West, passionately celebrating life with his friends and writing about the next adventures of Captain Bob. Robert had lost his home and savings due to his recently deceased brother’s bad business dealings. His book, Vagabond Pilot: A Voyage of Discovery and Renewal follows his journey from Santa Monica to Connecticut and back, searching for meaning in a time of unprecedented personal and national crisis, Bob ultimately discovers the surprising truth about himself and the country he loves. https://www.abebooks.com/9781941015568/Vagabond-Pilot-Voyage-Discovery-Renewal-1941015565/plpSam Roberts is a 50-year veteran of New York journalism, is an obituaries reporter and formerly the Urban Affairs correspondent at the New York Times. He hosts The New York Times "Close Up," which he inaugurated in 1992, and the podcasts "Only in New York," anthologized in a book of the same name, and "The Caucus." He is the author of A History of New York in 27 Buildings, A History of New York in 101 Objects, and Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America, among others. https://www.mcny.org/event/new-yorkers-sam-roberts