C. D. B. 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 received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University. He then served in the U.S. Army (1958-1960 in South Korea, 1961-1962 in Berlin). In the following years he held various activities in the literary world ( editor of a satirical magazine, a lecturer at various universities and colleges, etc., . ).

His most successful book was called Friendly Fire and appeared in 1976., It is about a farm family in Iowa who learns that her son was killed in Vietnam by so-called friendly fire. The book was made ​​into a film in 1979 for television.

In 1995 he published a report on a led by psychiatrist John E. Mack and the physicist David E. Pritchard conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1992, which dealt with the phenomenon of alien abduction.

Awards

Publications

  • P. S. Wilkinson. 1965 The outsider. Novel. Propylaea Verlag, Frankfurt / Berlin 1967
  • Friendly Fire. 1976
  • The National Air and Space Museum. 1979
  • The National Geographic Society: 100 Years of Adventure and Discovery. 1987 The big National Geographic book. 100 years of adventure and discovery. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 1988, ISBN 3-455-08280-7; expanded and updated edition: G and J / RBA, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-934385-12-5
  • Act UFO. Strange encounters of the fourth kind alien abductions. Goldmann, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-442-12748-3
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