Legacy MattersDavid Dornstein, while at Brown, had an idea for a fictional autobiography.
''The idea?" his brother would write later. ''An unknown young writer dies in a plane crash leaving behind lots of notebooks and bits of stories, and the narrator sets out to piece it all together into a story of the unknown writer's life."
Only 25 when the Libyan terrorists blew Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie Scotland in 1968, David Dornstein fell 6 miles to earth.
Fortunately, he had left lots of notebooks and story ideas from which his brother Ken pieced together David's life and his own.
From Beyond Biography, a book review by Daniel Akst in the Boston Globe
Ken didn't just visit the remains of the Boeing aircraft and determine where David sat in relation to the fateful load of Semtex explosives. He pored over his brother's most private writings. He interviewed David's friends. He tracked down his brother's childhood sexual abuser. He became romantically involved with not one but two of David's main love interests. Eventually he married one of them.
"The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky : A True Story" (Ken Dornstein)