Donald Bain

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Donald Sutherland Bain (born March 6, 1935 in Mineola, New York ; died October 21, 2017 in White Plains, New York ) was an American writer . His books, written under a pseudonym , have appeared millions of times.

Life

Donald Bain studied literature and theater at Purdue University . He played the drum and vibraphone in jazz groups. During his military service he was deployed in Saudi Arabia .

Bain began working on radio and television in Texas and Indiana . At Peckham Productions, he produced industrial and advertising films for companies such as Avon , American Airlines , Pan Am , IBM , Union Carbide and the United States Information Agency (USIA). He wrote his own radio series and a health education program for the radio. In 1985 he founded an advertising consultancy with his wife.

Bain has assisted Long John Nebel on more than 200 late-night radio shows in New York City . He wrote a biography of Nebel and wrote the report about his wife The Control of Candy Jones in connection with her participation in the CIA program MKULTRA .

Bain wrote a total of 125 books, memoirs, novels, thrillers and commercial literature, the least of them under his name, but under various pseudonyms or as a ghostwriter under the name of the client. Under the name Jessica Fletcher , the heroine of the television series Murder is Her Hobby , he wrote 46 titles. In 1967, under the name "Trudy Baker and Rachel Jones", an alleged disclosure book about the lives of two stewardesses with the title Coffee, Tea, or Me? The bestseller was followed by three more of these stewardess books, which have sold a total of five million times. Only in a new edition in 2003 did his own name appear next to the two alleged authors as "with Donald Bain".

For Margaret Truman he wrote some of her detective novels as a ghostwriter and after her death continued her Murder series with four titles. He co-wrote the autobiography for Veronica Lake . His book Caviar, Caviar, Caviar was conceived as a coffee table book on the subject of caviar , as was a book on cocktails .

Bain campaigned for writers' rights in the Writers Guild of America and was a member of various writing organizations such as the Mystery Writers of America and the Private Eye Writers of America.

Fonts (selection)

  • Trudy Baker; Rachel Jones: Coffee, tea or me? : the uninhibited memoirs of two airline stewardesses . first in 1967
    • Trudy Baker; Rachel Jones: Coffee, Tea or Me? Translation: Erika Gruninger. Bonn: Hörnemann, 1970
  • Jessica Fletcher: Murder, She Wrote
  • Margaret Truman's Undiplomatic murder: a capital crimes novel . New York: Forge, 2014
  • Coffee, tea, or murder? Audiobook read by Cynthia Darlow . Blackstone Audio, 2015
Autobiographies
  • Every midget has an Uncle Sam costume: writing for a living . Fort Lee, NJ: Barricade Books, 2002
  • Murder HE Wrote: A Successful Writer's Life . Autobiography. West Lafayette, Ind .: NotaBell Books, 2006

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personal data
SURNAME Bain, Donald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bain, Donald Sutherland (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Mineola (New York)
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 2017
Place of death White Plains (New York)