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| Born | Courtlandt Dixon Barnes Bryan (1936-04-22)April 22, 1936 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | December 15, 2009(2009-12-15) (aged 73) Guilford, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Education | Yale University, B.A., 1958 Berkshire School |
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| Employer(s) | Monocle (Editor-in-Chief, 1961–65) The New Yorker Lynn Nesbit atJanklow & 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 asC. D. B. Bryan, was an American author and journalist.[1][2]
He was born on April 22, 1936, inManhattan, New York City. His parents were Joseph Bryan III and Katharine Barnes Bryan; after they divorced his mother married authorJohn O'Hara.[3]
Bryan attendedEpiscopal High School inAlexandria, Virginia from 1949 till 1952,[4] and theBerkshire School in the class of 1954 and earned a Bachelor of Arts atYale University in 1958, where he wrote for campus humor magazineThe Yale Record.[5] He was also a member of the fraternity St. Anthony Hall.[6]
He served in theU.S. Army in South Korea (1958–1960), but not happily. He was mobilized again (1961–1962) for theBerlin Crisis of 1961.[2][7][8] He was anintelligence officer.[citation needed]
Bryan sold his first short story toThe New Yorker in 1961.[9]
He waseditor of the satiricalMonocle (from 1961 until 1965),Colorado State University writer-in-residence (winter 1967), visitinglecturerUniversity of Iowa writers workshop (1967–1969), special editorial consultant at Yale (1970), visiting professor at theUniversity of Wyoming (1975),adjunct professorColumbia University (1976), fiction director at the New York City Writers Community from (1977), lecturer in English atUniversity of Virginia (spring 1983), and Bard Center fellow atBard College (spring 1984).[2][10]
His first novel,P. S. Wilkinson, won theHarper Prize in 1965.[7]
Bryan is best known for his non-fiction bookFriendly Fire (1976). It began as an idea he sold toWilliam Shawn for an article inThe New Yorker, then grew into a series of articles, and then a book. It describes anIowa farm family, Gene andPeg Mullen, and their reaction and change of heart after their son's accidental death byfriendly fire in theVietnam War.[11][12] One of the real-life characters featured in the book was futureOperation Desert Storm commanderH. Norman Schwarzkopf.
It was made into anEmmy-winning 1979 television movieof the same name, for which Bryan shared aPeabody Award. It has also been cited in professional military studies.[13]
Bryan died from cancer on December 15, 2009, at his home inGuilford, Connecticut.[14]
Bryan contributed articles to many periodicals, includingThe 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, andThe Weekly Standard. He additionally author the narration for the 1963 Swedish filmThe 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 inCumings, Bruce (May 2003)."Some Thoughts on the Korean-American Relationship".JPRI Occasional Paper No. 31.Japan Policy Research Institute at theUniversity of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim. RetrievedApril 1, 2009.Monocle was started whileNavasky was still a student at Yale during the tail end of theMcCarthy 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 humoristMarvin Kitman
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