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An American journalist, war correspondent, author, and television producer, born in Montesano, Washington, USA. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He also wrote books on the education of disabled children, and in 1950 became a Korean War correspondent for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat. He also worked for the San Francisco Chronicle and the Miami Herald in the 1950s. While living and working in Florida, he wrote a letter to Ernest Hemingway, and the two became friends. He adapted a Hemingway novel and wrote the screenplays for several works of art, including Red Sun, Men of the Dragon, and The Cowboy and the Ballerina.