In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.

He moved to Tucson in 1975 where he was employed at Kitt Peak National Observatory as a computer programmer until 1982. Rudoff)
2005 - Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment Second Edition - ISBN 0-321-52594-9 (with Stephen A. Wright) - ISBN 0-201-63354-X
1996 - TCP/IP Illustrated Volume 3: TCP for Transactions HTTP NNTP and the UNIX Domain Protocols - ISBN 0-201-63495-3
1998 - UNIX Network Programming Volume 1 Second Edition: Networking APIs: Sockets and XTI - ISBN 0-13-490012-X
1999 - UNIX Network Programming Volume 2 Second Edition: Interprocess Communications - ISBN 0-13-081081-9
2003 - UNIX Network Programming Volume 1 Third Edition: The Sockets Networking API - ISBN 0-13-141155-1 (with Bill Fenner and Andrew M.

William Richard (Rich) Stevens (February 5 1951 Luanshya Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) – September 1 1999) was an author of computer science books in particular books on UNIX and TCP/IP.