� I always admired KW's writing and knowledge. I've wondered whether he was a full time experimenter and gun writer or did he have a day job also - few get rich as a full time gun writer.
He's a former merchant seaman. When he wrote gun stuff, he was the city engineer (civil) for his home city in Connecticut � long since retired, of course.
He's an ardent fan of steam power and has filled several albums with photographs of all the world's steam-powered ships.
He has also written a historical novel,
Sea Officer.
He earned good (but not super-good) salaries on his official jobs but got pitifully little from his writing. Never ever rich or even close to it, of course.
