Gregory Liefer was raised in a small coastal community in Alaska where he grew up with a strong appreciation of the outdoors and a fascination with aircraft. During the summers he worked as a commercial fisherman and after graduating High School and attending college, joined the U.S. military. Greg later flew as a civilian pilot in Alaska for a major helicopter company. 

Greg's first non-fiction book, Broken Wings, was published in 2003. The book was re-released by Publication Consultants in June of 2014 with updated stories and over 150 additional images. His second non-fiction book, Aviation Mysteries of the North, was published by Publication Consultants in 2011. Last Flight, his first novel, was released by Yucca Publishing in 2016. 

The author holds an FAA Airline Transport Pilot certificate and has flown a variety of fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft. Twenty-three of his thirty-plus years of flying was in Alaska. Greg currently resides in Idaho where he continues his writing career. 

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