C. D. B. Bryan | |
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Born | Courtlandt Dixon Barnes Bryan April 22, 1936
New York City, U.S. |
Died | December 15, 2009
Guilford, Connecticut, U.S. | (aged 73)
Education |
Yale University, B.A., 1958 Berkshire School |
Occupations |
|
Employer(s) |
Monocle (Editor-in-Chief, 1961–65) The New Yorker Lynn Nesbit at Janklow & Nesbit Literary Agency |
Known for |
Friendly Fire (film) (1979) Friendly Fire (1976) P. S. Wilkinson (1965) So Much Unfairness of Things (1965) |
Parent(s) |
Joseph Bryan III Katharine (Barnes) Bryan John O'Hara (stepfather) |
Awards | Harper Prize (1965) Peabody Award (1980) |
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]
He was born on April 22, 1936, in Manhattan, New York City. His parents were Joseph Bryan III and Katharine Barnes Bryan; after they divorced his mother married author John O'Hara. [3]
Bryan attended Berkshire School in the class of 1954 and earned a Bachelor of Arts at Yale University in 1958, where he wrote for campus humor magazine The Yale Record. [4] He was also a member of the fraternity St. Anthony Hall. [5]
He served in the U.S. Army in South Korea (1958–1960), but not happily. He was mobilized again (1961–1962) for the Berlin Crisis of 1961. [2] [6] [7] He was an intelligence officer.[ citation needed]
Bryan sold his first short story to The New Yorker in 1961. [8]
He was editor of the satirical Monocle (from 1961 until 1965), Colorado State University writer-in-residence (winter 1967), visiting lecturer University of Iowa writers workshop (1967–1969), special editorial consultant at Yale (1970), visiting professor University of Wyoming (1975), adjunct professor Columbia University (1976), fiction director at the New York City Writers Community from (1977), lecturer in English University of Virginia (spring 1983), and Bard Center fellow Bard College (spring 1984). [2] [9]
His first novel, P. S. Wilkinson, won the Harper Prize in 1965. [6]
Bryan is best known for his non-fiction book Friendly Fire (1976). It began as an idea he sold to William Shawn for an article in The New Yorker, then grew into a series of articles, and then a book. It describes an Iowa farm family, Gene and Peg Mullen, and their reaction and change of heart after their son's accidental death by friendly fire in the Vietnam War. [10] [11] One of the real-life characters featured in the book was future Operation Desert Storm commander H. Norman Schwarzkopf.
It was made into an Emmy-winning 1979 television movie of the same name, for which he shared a Peabody Award. It's also been cited in professional military studies. [12]
Bryan died from cancer on December 15, 2009, at his home in Guilford, Connecticut. [13]
Bryan contributed articles to many periodicals, including The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, The New Republic, Esquire, Harper's, Saturday Review, and The Weekly Standard. He additionally author the narration for the 1963 Swedish film The Face of War.
Books (non-fiction)
Books (novels)
Book contributions
Book reviews
Short stories
Novelist Bryan, John O'Hara's stepson, was educated at Yale, served in the Army during the peacetime occupation of Korea, and after his discharge was caught in the call-up of reservists during the 1961 Berlin crisis.
In 1965, as South Korea entered its export-led take-off, C.D.B. Bryan wrote that "this is the foulest, goddamndest country I've ever seen!" The only thing that made Korea bearable, he thought, was "the availability of women"
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link) cited in
Cumings, Bruce (May 2003).
"Some Thoughts on the Korean-American Relationship". JPRI Occasional Paper No. 31.
Japan Policy Research Institute at the
University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim. Retrieved April 1, 2009.
Monocle was started while Navasky was still a student at Yale during the tail end of the McCarthy period. ... Their trenchantly witty writers included some of today's literary and social comedic luminaries, Calvin Trillin, C. D. B. Bryan, Dan Wakefield, Neil Postman, Richard Lingeman, Dan Greenberg, and humorist Marvin Kitman
Bibliography
C. D. B. Bryan | |
---|---|
Born | Courtlandt Dixon Barnes Bryan April 22, 1936
New York City, U.S. |
Died | December 15, 2009
Guilford, Connecticut, U.S. | (aged 73)
Education |
Yale University, B.A., 1958 Berkshire School |
Occupations |
|
Employer(s) |
Monocle (Editor-in-Chief, 1961–65) The New Yorker Lynn Nesbit at Janklow & Nesbit Literary Agency |
Known for |
Friendly Fire (film) (1979) Friendly Fire (1976) P. S. Wilkinson (1965) So Much Unfairness of Things (1965) |
Parent(s) |
Joseph Bryan III Katharine (Barnes) Bryan John O'Hara (stepfather) |
Awards | Harper Prize (1965) Peabody Award (1980) |
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]
He was born on April 22, 1936, in Manhattan, New York City. His parents were Joseph Bryan III and Katharine Barnes Bryan; after they divorced his mother married author John O'Hara. [3]
Bryan attended Berkshire School in the class of 1954 and earned a Bachelor of Arts at Yale University in 1958, where he wrote for campus humor magazine The Yale Record. [4] He was also a member of the fraternity St. Anthony Hall. [5]
He served in the U.S. Army in South Korea (1958–1960), but not happily. He was mobilized again (1961–1962) for the Berlin Crisis of 1961. [2] [6] [7] He was an intelligence officer.[ citation needed]
Bryan sold his first short story to The New Yorker in 1961. [8]
He was editor of the satirical Monocle (from 1961 until 1965), Colorado State University writer-in-residence (winter 1967), visiting lecturer University of Iowa writers workshop (1967–1969), special editorial consultant at Yale (1970), visiting professor University of Wyoming (1975), adjunct professor Columbia University (1976), fiction director at the New York City Writers Community from (1977), lecturer in English University of Virginia (spring 1983), and Bard Center fellow Bard College (spring 1984). [2] [9]
His first novel, P. S. Wilkinson, won the Harper Prize in 1965. [6]
Bryan is best known for his non-fiction book Friendly Fire (1976). It began as an idea he sold to William Shawn for an article in The New Yorker, then grew into a series of articles, and then a book. It describes an Iowa farm family, Gene and Peg Mullen, and their reaction and change of heart after their son's accidental death by friendly fire in the Vietnam War. [10] [11] One of the real-life characters featured in the book was future Operation Desert Storm commander H. Norman Schwarzkopf.
It was made into an Emmy-winning 1979 television movie of the same name, for which he shared a Peabody Award. It's also been cited in professional military studies. [12]
Bryan died from cancer on December 15, 2009, at his home in Guilford, Connecticut. [13]
Bryan contributed articles to many periodicals, including The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, The New Republic, Esquire, Harper's, Saturday Review, and The Weekly Standard. He additionally author the narration for the 1963 Swedish film The Face of War.
Books (non-fiction)
Books (novels)
Book contributions
Book reviews
Short stories
Novelist Bryan, John O'Hara's stepson, was educated at Yale, served in the Army during the peacetime occupation of Korea, and after his discharge was caught in the call-up of reservists during the 1961 Berlin crisis.
In 1965, as South Korea entered its export-led take-off, C.D.B. Bryan wrote that "this is the foulest, goddamndest country I've ever seen!" The only thing that made Korea bearable, he thought, was "the availability of women"
{{
cite book}}
: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (
link) cited in
Cumings, Bruce (May 2003).
"Some Thoughts on the Korean-American Relationship". JPRI Occasional Paper No. 31.
Japan Policy Research Institute at the
University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim. Retrieved April 1, 2009.
Monocle was started while Navasky was still a student at Yale during the tail end of the McCarthy period. ... Their trenchantly witty writers included some of today's literary and social comedic luminaries, Calvin Trillin, C. D. B. Bryan, Dan Wakefield, Neil Postman, Richard Lingeman, Dan Greenberg, and humorist Marvin Kitman
Bibliography