Timothy W. Lake

Timothy Lake has enjoyed a long career as a newspaper, radio, and television journalist with prominent TV news anchor positions in Philadelphia, Houston, Charleston, South Carolina, and Albany, New York. He has reported on major stories throughout the southern United States, Texas, Washington, the Mid-Atlantic, and New York. Most recently, he was the anchor and host of Empire State Weekly, a political talk show airing on ten TV stations in New York State.

An accomplished nonfiction author, his third book, Hang on and Fly—which followed historical sketch publications Henderson Harbor and Association Island—examines the emotional drama behind a year of disastrous plane crashes among the first budget airlines of North America.