Jonathan Livingston Seagull, written by Richard Bach, and illustrated by Russell Munson is a fable in novella form about a seagull who is trying to learn about life and flight, and a homily about self-perfection. Bach wrote it as a series of short stories that were published in a soaring magazine in the late 1960s. It was first published in book form in 1970.

I love this book. I was a street artist in the San Francisco Bay area starting in 1970 thru 1982. I would go out on weekends and sell pictures in parks, malls and on street corners. Thanks to this book during the 1970 - 1972 period I sold every seagull photo I ever printed.