Chet Cunningham (1928–2017)
Auteur de Hell Wouldn't Stop: An Oral History of the Battle of Wake Island
A propos de l'auteur
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 afficher plus 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 In 1994, he founded the nonprofit San Diego Book Awards as a way to honor published and unpublished local writers.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) afficher moins
Notice de désambiguation :
(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
Nonfiction: Your Bike, Your Wheels, Your First Car, 222 Ways to Save Gas The Layman's Medical Help Books
Séries
Œuvres de Chet Cunningham
Deadly Justice (Mr. Justice #1) 4 exemplaires
Search and Destroy 1 exemplaire
The Rainbow Saga (Breckenridge Saga #1) 1 exemplaire
Gold and the Glory # 1 exemplaire
Killer Edge 1 exemplaire
Eagle Strikes Back (The Outlaws Series Book 9) 1 exemplaire
The Specialists 1 exemplaire
Moments 1 exemplaire
Scream Vengeance 1 exemplaire
Captial Hell 1 exemplaire
Comanche Moon (The Pony Soldiers, #3) 1 exemplaire
Blind Justice (Mr. Justice #2) 1 exemplaire
Trent: Teenage Spy 1 exemplaire
The Professor's Trackdown (Outlaws #7) 1 exemplaire
Showdown at Flagstaff (Outlaws #6) 1 exemplaire
First Californians 1 exemplaire
The Associates 1 exemplaire
The Lobo Link 1 exemplaire
The Devils Gunslinger 1 exemplaire
The Outlaw Series - Western Boxed Set 1 exemplaire
Locked storeroom mystery 1 exemplaire
Dead-start scramble 1 exemplaire
The Widow Maker 1 exemplaire
Willy Boy's Gun (Outlaws #8) 1 exemplaire
Jim Steel Die of Gold 1 exemplaire
You are Expelled 1 exemplaire
Open Range Justice (Mr. Justice #3) 1 exemplaire
Texas Range War 1 exemplaire
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- Nom légal
- Cunningham, Chester
- Autres noms
- Cunningham, Cathy
Fletcher, Dirk
Derrick, Lionel
Cody, Jess
Phillips, Tony (shared pseudonym) - Date de naissance
- 1928-12-09
- Date de décès
- 2017-03-24
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Shelby, Nebraska, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- San Diego, California, USA
- Études
- Pacific University (BS, 1950)
Columbia University (MS|1954) - Professions
- city editor (News-Times in Forest Grove, Oregon, 1954-1955)
writer (educational and church films, Jam Handy of Detroit, 1955-1959) - Relations
- Cunningham, Scott (son)
Ashworth, Christine (daughter) - Notice de désambigüisation
- 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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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 138
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 829
- Popularité
- #30,792
- Évaluation
- 3.4
- Critiques
- 11
- ISBN
- 205
- Langues
- 1