CDB Bryan
CDB Bryan ( Courtlandt Dixon Barnes "Courty" Bryan; born April 22, 1936 in New York City , † December 15, 2009 in Guilford , Connecticut ) was an American author and journalist .
Life
In 1958 he made his Bachelor of Arts at Yale University . He then served in the US Army (1958–1960 in South Korea, 1961–1962 in Berlin). In the following years he had various activities in the literature business (editor of a satirical magazine, lecturer at various universities and colleges, and much more).
His most successful book was called Friendly Fire and was published in 1976. It is about a farming family in Iowa who learn that their son was killed in a so-called friendly fire in Vietnam . The book was filmed for television in 1979.
In 1995 he published a report on a conference chaired by psychiatrist John E. Mack and physicist David E. Pritchard at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1992, which dealt with the phenomenon of alien abduction .
Awards
- 1965 Harper Prize for PS Wilkinson
- 1979 Peabody Award for the film adaptation of Friendly Fire
Publications
- Novels
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PS Wilkinson. 1965
- The outsider. Novel. Propylaea Verlag, Frankfurt / Berlin 1967
- The Great Dethriffe. 1970
- Beautiful Women, Ugly Scenes. 1983
- Non-fiction
- Friendly fire. 1976
- The National Air and Space Museum. 1979
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The National Geographic Society: 100 Years of Adventure and Discovery. 1987
- The great National Geographic book. 100 years of adventure and discovery. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1988, ISBN 3-455-08280-7 ; extended and updated edition: G and J / RBA, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-934385-12-5
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Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind: Alien Abduction, UFOs and the Conference at MIT 1995
- UFO files. Close encounters of the fourth kind. Alien abductions. Goldmann, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-442-12748-3
Web links
- Literature by and about CDB Bryan in the catalog of the German National Library
- C. Bryan, 73, Friendly Fire Writer, Dies , obituary by Bruce Weber in the New York Times , December 17, 2009
- CDB Bryan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bryan, CDB |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bryan, Courtlandt Dixon Barnes (full name); Bryan, Courty |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American journalist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 22, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 15, 2009 |
| Place of death | Guilford (Connecticut) |