Chet Cunningham (1928–2017)
Auteur van Hell Wouldn't Stop: An Oral History of the Battle of Wake Island
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Chet Cunningham was born in Nebraska on December 9, 1928. He received a bachelor's degree in journalism from Pacific University. Drafted into the Army, he was a mortar gunner in a heavy weapons company in Korea. After the war, he received a master's degree in journalism at Columbia University. He toon meer worked for small newspapers in Michigan and Oregon before moving to San Diego in 1960 to work at Convair on various audio-visual projects, including a training film for fighter pilots. He became a full-time writer when he was laid off from his job. He wrote magazine articles while working on his first novel. His first book, Bushwhackers of the Circle K, was published in 1968. He went on to write 450 books including westerns, thrillers, military history, and medical guides. In 1994, he founded the nonprofit San Diego Book Awards as a way to honor published and unpublished local writers. He died of complications from a fall on March 14, 2017 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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(eng) author of Hell Wouldn't Stop: An Oral History of the Battle of Wake Island
author of some of the Jim Steel Western series, first three of the Brad Spear series, Mack Bolan series
As Lionel Derrick, a pseudonym with Mark Roberts Penetrator series
Under the name of Dirk Fletcher, Spur Western series
also wrote as Cathy Cunningham
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- Officiële naam
- Cunningham, Chester
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Cunningham, Cathy
Fletcher, Dirk
Derrick, Lionel
Cody, Jess
Phillips, Tony (shared pseudonym) - Geboortedatum
- 1928-12-09
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2017-03-24
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Shelby, Nebraska, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- San Diego, California, USA
- Opleiding
- Pacific University (BS, 1950)
Columbia University (MS|1954) - Beroepen
- city editor (News-Times in Forest Grove, Oregon, 1954-1955)
writer (educational and church films, Jam Handy of Detroit, 1955-1959) - Relaties
- Cunningham, Scott (son)
Ashworth, Christine (daughter) - Ontwarringsbericht
- author of Hell Wouldn't Stop: An Oral History of the Battle of Wake Island
author of some of the Jim Steel Western series, first three of the Brad Spear series, Mack Bolan series
As Lionel Derrick, a pseudonym with Mark Roberts Penetrator series
Under the name of Dirk Fletcher, Spur Western series
also wrote as Cathy Cunningham
Nonfiction: Your Bike, Your Wheels, Your First Car, 222 Ways to Save Gas The Layman's Medical Help Books
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