Richard Bach in the cockpit of his piper cub airplane in 1972 (John Shearer/Getty)

If you thought that time when Stephen King recovered after being hit by a car while out for a walk leaving him with a shattered leg, broken hip and a collapsed right lung was as unimaginable as one of the scenes from the authors’s 50-plus novels and countless short stories, get a load of this: Another internationally bestselling author, Richard Bach, who found fame in 1970 after writing Jonathan Livingston Seagull, a three part novella about a bird, is on the mend after nearly dying in a plane crash five months ago.

Massive brain, chest and spine injuries, not to mention a coma, kept the 76-year-old author in a Seattle hospital for four months. But Bach not only returned to his Orca Island home last month, he also recently finished the fourth part of the book about Jonathan, the seagull who marches to the beat of his own drum, reports Jennifer Sullivan in the Seattle Times.

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