![]() ![]() Writing in his spare time, he interviewed 63 survivors of the disaster. He started reading about and drawing Titanic at the age of ten and spent many years collecting Titanic memorabilia, causing people to "take note of this oddity." He majored in history at Princeton University and graduated from Yale Law School before joining the New York-based advertising agency J. ![]() As he later put it, he spent his time on the Olympic "prowling around" and trying to imagine "such a huge thing" sinking. Lord traveled on the RMS Olympic, Titanic 's sister ship, when he was a boy and the experience gave him a lifelong fascination with the lost liner. Lord also served as a consultant to Canadian film director James Cameron while he was making his film Titanic in 1997. ![]() The film based on the book and with advice from Lord, was released in 1958. In 1986, Lord authored his follow-up book, The Night Lives On, following renewed interest in the story after the wreck of the Titanic was discovered by Robert Ballard. Lord interviewed 63 survivors of the disaster as well as drawing on books, memoirs, and articles that they had written. The book was hugely successful, and is still considered a definitive resource about the Titanic. ![]() A Night to Remember is a 1955 non-fiction book by Walter Lord that depicts the sinking of the RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912. ![]()
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