Francis Gary Powers was born on 17 August 1929 in Jenkins, Kentucky, USA. He was a writer, known for Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident (1976), Le monde parallèle (1967) and The Mike Douglas Show (1961). He was married to Claudia Edwards Downey and Barbara Gay Moore. He died on 1 August 1977 in Encino, California, USA.