Author Sandy Munro

Munro grew up in Maryland, and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1964. After earning his Navy wings, he was sent to Quonset Point Rhode Island as a pilot in Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Eleven which was assigned to the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Wasp. At the completion of his three-year tour, Munro taught formation flying in fixed-wing aircraft at the Naval Air Training Command in Pensacola, Florida. He was released from active duty in late 1969.

Onto his next tour in life, Munro moved with his wife and son to Aspen, Colorado. For six years he taught mathematics, physics, aviation, and Bluegrass music at Aspen High School. In 1977 he bought Aspen’s only music store, The Great Divide, which he owned and operated until 2007. The Great Divide was a teaching center, as well as a nationally known guitar shop. Munro has since devoted himself to full-time writing, but still finds time for music. He plays Celtic music, mostly Irish and Scottish, and leads a bluegrass band called The Flying Dogs. Munro also teaches guitar, mandolin, fiddle and banjo. Munro’s wife, Mary Lynn, is a stained glass artist and musician.

Finding Uri, Munro’s first book, is a memoir about his father, Uri, a naval aviator during World War II flying from the U.S.S. Enterprise in the Pacific. Uri was shot down and lost in January 1945 when Munro was four-years-old. When his mother died in 2007, Munro unexpectedly received a box in the mail. It contained 190 letters written back and forth between his young parents, Uri and Betsy, while Uri was in the naval service flying in TBM torpedo bombers.

After almost a year’s consideration, Munro began a two-year process of reading the letters and writing about the experience as he went along. A love story and a mystery emerge as Munro uncovers the intimate letters between his mother and father.

Colorado Book Awards select Finding Uri

Finding Uri, by Sandy Munro, has been selected a finalist in the Creative Nonfiction category for 2012.

Father’s Day Blogging Assignment

I was asked by Bob Brody to write a letter to my daughter on Father’s Day for his blog, letterstomykid.org. It was to concern my book as well.

Why should someone read my book?

Question from a writer’s blog ...

Veteran’s Day

Finding Uri makes it, all the more, a day of reflection for me.

Sandy talks about Finding Uri - video

Finding Uri Introduction read by Sandy Munro with reader’s reaction’s

Finding Uri - readers reactions

What I’ve observed in the first few weeks about reader’s reactions to Finding Uri

Finding Uri - PR and review

CBS News Roundup interview and Autumn Blues Review

Finding Uri - the latest

Father’s Day news from a Father’s Day book

News from Finding Uri - book signing too

Book signing at Two Old Hippies, 4 - 5:30 Friday, June 17th

The All New Woody Creek People’s Press Blogosphere

Finding Uri arrives…

Absolutely amazing.

Absolutely amazing story set during World War II between author Sandy Munro’s mother and father who was a Naval Aviator serving on the U.S.S Enterprise in the war in the Pacific. It’s got love, it’s got first-person recounts of such a trying time in world history and it’s got a human element that not many books carry.
Hands down one of the best books I’ve read all year and one of my favorites set during World War II. Young or old, man or woman - this book is sure not to disappoint!
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