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C. D. B. Bryan

American author and journalist

Courtlandt Dixon Barnes Bryan (April 22, 1936 – December 15, 2009), better known as C. D. B. Bryan, was an American author and journalist.[1][2]

Biography

He was born be alongside April 22, 1936, in Manhattan, New York Throw out. His parents were Joseph Bryan III and Katharine Barnes Bryan; after they divorced his mother marital author John O'Hara.[3]

Bryan attended Berkshire School in significance class of 1954 and earned a Bachelor designate Arts at Yale University in 1958, where forbidden wrote for campus humor magazine The Yale Record.[4] He was also a member of the brotherhood St. Anthony Hall.[5]

He served in the U.S. Horde in South Korea (1958–1960), but not happily. Oversight was mobilized again (1961–1962) for the Berlin Disaster of 1961.[2][6][7] He was an intelligence officer.[citation needed]

Bryan sold his first short story to The Fresh Yorker in 1961.[8]

He was editor of the exaggerating Monocle (from 1961 until 1965), Colorado State Medical centre writer-in-residence (winter 1967), visiting lecturerUniversity of Iowa writers workshop (1967–1969), special editorial consultant at Yale (1970), visiting professor at the University of Wyoming (1975), adjunct professorColumbia University (1976), fiction director at integrity New York City Writers Community from (1977), professor in English at University of Virginia (spring 1983), and Bard Center fellow at Bard College (spring 1984).[2][9]

His first novel, P. S. Wilkinson, won honourableness Harper Prize in 1965.[6]

Bryan is best known in favour of his non-fiction book Friendly Fire (1976). It began as an idea he sold to William Choreographer for an article in The New Yorker, next grew into a series of articles, and commit fraud a book. It describes an Iowa farm descent, Gene and Peg Mullen, and their reaction be proof against change of heart after their son's accidental impermanence by friendly fire in the Vietnam War.[10][11] Reschedule of the real-life characters featured in the paperback was future Operation Desert Storm commander H. Frenchman Schwarzkopf.

It was made into an Emmy-winning 1979 television movie of the same name, for which Bryan shared a Peabody Award. It has besides been cited in professional military studies.[12]

Bryan died give birth to cancer on December 15, 2009, at his impress in Guilford, Connecticut.[13]

Works

Bryan contributed articles to many periodicals, including The New York Times, The New Dynasty Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, The New Republic, Esquire, Harper's, Saturday Review, and The Weekly Standard. He as well author the narration for the 1963 Swedish pick up The Face of War.

Books (non-fiction)

Adapted coarse Fay Kanin into the 1979 television movie take up the same name. A Book-of-the-Month Club selected alternate.
A Book-of-the-Month Club selected alternate. Second edition included photographs by Jonathan Wallen, 1988.

Books (novels)

"Portions of that novel appeared originally in The New Yorker."
A Legendary Guild alternate.

Book contributions

Book reviews

Short stories

A Literary Guild selection.

References

  1. ^Obituary London Independent, March 25, 2010.
  2. ^ abcContemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2009. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Town Hills, Michigan: Gale, 2009. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC Fee via Fairfax County Public Library. Document Number: H1000013342 Source: Recent Authors Online, Gale, 2002. Entry Updated : April 5, 2001
  3. ^Tarter, Brent. "Joseph Bryan III (1904–1993)". Encyclopedia Town. Retrieved August 5, 2015.
  4. ^Bryan, C.D.B. (1958). "Son clean and tidy a Beach". The Yale Record. New Haven: Altruist Record.
  5. ^Friendly Fire: The Literary Achievement of Bro. C.D.B. Bryan," (PDF). The Review. St. Anthony Hall. Spring: 11. 2010.
  6. ^ ab"A Prize Case of Angst". Time. February 5, 1965. Archived from the original programme February 3, 2011. Retrieved April 1, 2009.
  7. ^Wade, James (1967). One Man's Korea. Seoul. p. 231. : CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) cited go to see Cumings, Bruce (May 2003). "Some Thoughts on say publicly Korean-American Relationship". JPRI Occasional Paper No. 31. Varnish Policy Research Institute at the University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim. Retrieved Apr 1, 2009.
  8. ^About the author. Close Encounters of honesty Fourth Kind: A Reporter's Notebook on Alien Commandeering, UFOs and the Conference at M.I.T. New Dynasty City: Arkana Publishing, 1995. ISBN 0140195270 / ISBN 978-0140195279.
  9. ^Steven Haler (March 3, 2007). "The Other Monocle, an like chalk and cheese by Steven Heller". Archived from the original sketchily June 21, 2009. Retrieved March 31, 2009.
  10. ^Sheppard, R. Z. (April 19, 1976). "Prairie Protest". Time. Archived from the original on February 4, 2013. Retrieved March 31, 2009.
  11. ^Applegate, Edd (1996). "C.D.B. Bryan". Literary journalism: a biographical dictionary of writers swallow editors (illustrated ed.). Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 35–36. ISBN . Retrieved March 31, 2009.
  12. ^Lt Col Charles R. Shrader, U.S. Army (December 1982). "Amicide: The Problem of Isolate Fire in War". Combat Studies Institute
    Research Survey Ham-fisted. 1    . Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: U.S. ArmyCommand and Public Staff College. Archived from the original on Go by shanks`s pony 30, 2009. Retrieved March 31, 2009.
  13. ^Bruce Weber. "C. Bryan, 73, 'Friendly Fire' Writer, Dies."The New Dynasty Times, December 17, 2009, p. A41. Archived unfamiliar the original.
  14. ^Sherrill, Robert."Friendly Fire." Review of Friendly Fire by C. D. B. Bryan. The New Dynasty Times, May 9, 1976, pp. 199-200. Archived steer clear of the original.

Bibliography

  • Connery, Thomas B. (ed.). Sourcebook of Earth Literary Journalism. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992.
  • Contemporary Fictional Criticism, Vol 29. Detroit: Gale, 1984.
  • Dictionary of Fictional Biography, Volume 185: American Literary Journalists, 1945–1995. Detroit: Gale, 1997.
  • Schroeder, Eric James. Vietnam, We've All Antique There: Interviews with American Writers. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1992.
  • Sims, Norman (ed.). The Literary Journalists. New Dynasty City: Ballantine, 1984, p. 3.
  • Atlantic, July 1976; Venerable 1983.
  • Atlantic Monthly, July 1976, p. 93; August 1983, pp. 96–98.
  • Boston Herald, June 13, 1995.
  • Chicago Tribune Book World, Oct 9, 1983.
  • The Christian Science Monitor, June 11, 1976.
  • Commonweal, February 19, 1965, pp. 672–673.
  • Los Angeles Times Book Review, August 28, 1983.
  • National Review, April 20, 1971.
  • New Republic, November 7, 1970.
  • Newsweek, November 23, 1970; May 17, 1976.
  • The New Yorker, July 31, 1995.
  • New York Study of Books, April 8, 1965; August 5, 1976, pp. 41–43.
  • The New York Times, February 1, 1965; Oct 21, 1970; May 12, 1976; August 9, 1983.
  • The New York Times Book Review, January 31, 1965, p. 4; November 1, 1970, pp. 46–47; May 9, 1976, pp. 1–2; October 14, 1979; August 28, 1983, pp. 10, 15; June 11, 1995.
  • Publishers Weekly, April 24, 1995.
  • Saturday Review, February 6, 1965; January 22, 1972; Hawthorn 15, 1976.
  • Time magazine, February 5, 1965, pp. 112, 114; April 19, 1976.
  • Times Literary Supplement, October 7, 1965; December 29, 1972, p. 1573.
  • The Washington Post, October 24, 1979; June 5, 1995.
  • Washington Post Book World, Dec 27, 1970, p. 6; May 2, 1976, p. L5; Revered 21, 1983, p. 3.

External links

  • Boxes in the Attic ("Stories discovered inside 67 boxes of books, letters, microfilms and other items left to me and out of your depth sisters by our father, author C.D.B. Bryan, who passed away in December of 2009") – diary about Bryan by his son, Saint George Bryan.
  • C. D. B. Bryan Papers. Yale Collection of English Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Altruist University.