William Faulkner's 1935 novel Pylon tells the story of a group of barnstormers Nevil Shute's 1951 novel Round the Bend gives a detailed account of the activities of Alan Cobham's National Aviation Day. Archive sources show that Shute, in research for writing the book, wrote to Cobham to check details. Many of Richard Bach's novels feature modern barnstormers as protagonists, or otherwise incorporate barnstorming[11] Philip Jose Farmer's 1982 book A Barnstormer in Oz featured a barnstorming pilot named Hank Stover In the Peanuts comic strip, Snoopy's alter ego, the World War I Flying Ace, states that he may do a little barnstorming after the war The novel “The Flying Circus” by Susan Crandall follows the exploits of a trio of individuals who come together to create their own barnstorming troupe.