Kenneth L. Weber was born in Louisville, Kentucky, educated in public
schools, Boy Scout Troop 19, and The University of Louisville where he
earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and a commission in the United States Air Force. Later he received a Master of Arts degree in English from The Ohio State University. His thesis is Aviation in the Fiction of William Faulkner.

After achieving his childhood goal of becoming a military aviator, he
served for 28 years and logged 5,656 hours of flying time primarily in jet
bombers of Strategic Air Command and 185 combat sorties in AC-47 gunships in Vietnam.  He retired as a colonel in 1981. His decorations include the Air Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters, Bronze Star Medal, Meritorious Service Medal with one Oak Leaf Cluster, Distinguished Flying Cross with one Oak Leaf Cluster, and Legion of Merit with one Oak Leaf Cluster.

He married the former Mary Katherine Murphy of Jeffersonville, Indiana, in 1952. They have five children: Sharon, Steven, Eric, Robert, and Maria who have grown up as Air Force "brats" and are proud to have shared in the family's fast-paced, exciting, and educational lifestyle.  Mary, a Registered Nurse, continued her education after the children were
established, earning a Master of Arts degree in counseling psychology from Antioch New England Graduate School in 1979. She established a private practice in marriage counseling in Manchester, Connecticut, and later in Louisville, Kentucky, and New Albany, Indiana. The couple reside in Borden, Indiana.

During his air force service, he taught English at the Air Force Academy
and at the Air Force Academy Preparatory School, where he was head of the department of English. He commanded the Air Force Reserve Officers
Training Corps at The University of Connecticut prior to retirement. Subsequently he established the business communications program at the university's School of Business and later taught professional writing at Indiana University Southeast in New Albany, Indiana.

What the Captain Really Means, his first novel, examines the
prioritization of one's duty and the effects of the feminist movement upon a marriage stressed by the Vietnam war. He is currently preparing for publication A Life Not Long but Wide, the story of Arthur G. Donahue, the first of only seven Americans to fly combat with the Royal Air Force during the Battle of Britain and the author of two best-selling memoirs, Tally Ho! Yankee In a Spitfire and Last Flight from Singapore.