Bach was innate around Oak Park, Illinois to Roland Robert and Ruth Helen (Shaw) Bach; he occurs as distant descendent of composer Johann Sebastian Bach. He attended Long Beach State College (now California State University, Long Beach) in 1955.

Bach was it used to be that an Air Force reserve pilot, and he late became the barnstormer. 100% of his books require flight someway, from either a early stories which are then foursquare just about flying aircraft to his late works where flight occurs as complex philosophic metaphor. Bach experienced the brobdingnagian profits by owning Jonathan Livingston Seagull, the fable all about the seagull who flew for the sake of flying rather than only to catch food. Though his late books use non matched its popularity, his act has retained the dedicated fan base.

Numerous of his late books contain New Age philosophy and wisdom.

Bach appeared low in the early 1990s in a segment of his have at Compuserve, and answered completely e-electronic mail personally until he received as well several to treat by having. He as well got his have internet site, which has since disappeared.

Bach got sextet toddlers using his foremost married woman. His 2nd married woman was actress Leslie Parrish, whom he met during a shooting of the flick Jonathan Livingston Seagull in 1973 and married in 1981; The Bridge Through Forever is according to their courting. It is today divorced.

Works
Unknown to the Ground (1963) Biplane (1966) Nothing by Risk (1969) Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970) ISBN 0380012863 The Gift of Wings (1974) ''There's There are no Such Place When Far Away (1976) Illusions (1977) A Bridge Through Forever (1984) 1 (1988) Going from either Safety (1994) Away from Our Mind (1999) The Ferret Account: Air Ferrets Aloft (2002) Rescue Ferrets confounded (2002) Writer Ferrets: Chasing a Muse (2002) Rancher Ferrets on the Range (2003) A Endure War: Detective Ferrets & a Outbreak of the Golden Deed (2003) Curious Dwells: Escapade from either a Ferret Account (Oct. 2005. A single-volume edition of last books) Flying (2003) Messiah's Enchiridion'' (2004)