About Lane Wallace

Lane Wallace is an internationally-known columnist, writer, editor, and author. She is a correspondent for The Atlantic, a columnist and editor for Flying magazine, and has written for The New York Times, ForbesLife, The Dallas Morning News, Elite Traveler, Flight International, and a number of other national and international publications. She has written six books for NASA and is the founder and editor of No Map. No Guide. No Limits.—a blog focused on taking a more adventurous, entrepreneurial, and passion-driven approach to life. She is also an experienced pilot who has flown on five different continents and owns her own airplane. Her latest book, Unforgettable, a collection of some of her best flying adventure stories, has just been released and is available through Sportys.com.

Lane is also an expert in surviving adventure and uncertainty. At the age of 20, she survived a near-fatal car crash in New Zealand. She has flown a hostage rescue mission in Sudan, was part of the first blimp crew to successfully fly through the Alps, and has been lost in life-threatening conditions over the Appalachian mountains while flying her own airplane across America. She has climbed an 18,000-foot mountain in the shadow of Mt. Everest and has spent time collecting the stories of war refugees from Sudan, Darfur, Rwanda and Burundi. She also quit a successful corporate job to follow her passion for writing and exploring and has forged her own path through self-employment and entrepreneurship for more than 20 years.
Through these experiences, Lane has accumulated a wide variety of stories and insights about navigating uncharted territory in life and in the world. She combines the passion of an adventurer with the keen, analytical eye of a journalist, creating tales that are compelling, entertaining and thought-provoking, all at the same time. She is a very funny storyteller, but one reviewer has also described her as the “poet laureate” of aviation.
Lane has been interviewed on NPR, BBC and other radio outlets, and has spoken about adventure, passion, innovation and surviving uncertainty to a wide variety of audiences, from business conventions, community organizations, women’s groups and a Forbes Executive Women’s Summit to the 92nd Street Y, Stanford University and the Society of Experimental Test Pilots. She has also worked as a writer and producer on a number of television and video projects.
Lane graduated with honors from Brown University, with an B.A. in Semiotics. She is an honorary member of the United States Air Force Society of Wild Weasels and won a 2006 Telly Award for her work on the documentary Breaking the Chain. She keeps her airplane, a Grumman Cheetah, near her home in California.
Learn more at LaneWallace.com.