C. D. B. Bryan
| C. D. B. Bryan | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Courtlandt Dixon Barnes Bryan April 22, 1936 New York City |
| Died | December 15, 2009 (aged 73) Guilford, Connecticut |
| Education |
Yale University, B.A., 1958 Berkshire School |
| Occupation | writer, editor, professor |
| Employer |
Monocle (Editor-in-Chief, 1961–65) The New Yorker Lynn Nesbit at Janklow & 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 as C. D. B. Bryan, was an American author and journalist.
He was born on April 22, 1936 in Manhattan, New York City. Bryan attended Berkshire School in the class of 1954 and earned a Bachelor of Arts at Yale University in 1958, where he wrote for campus humor magazine The Yale Record. His parents were Joseph Bryan III and Katharine Barnes Bryan; after they divorced his mother married author John O'Hara.
He served in the U.S. Army in South Korea (1958–1960), but not happily. He was mobilized again (1961–1962) for the Berlin Crisis of 1961. He was an intelligence officer.
He was editor of the satirical Monocle (from 1961 until 1965), Colorado State University writer-in-residence (winter 1967), visiting lecturer University of Iowa writers workshop (1967–1969), special editorial consultant at Yale (1970), visiting professor University of Wyoming (1975), adjunct professor Columbia University (1976), fiction director at the New York City Writers Community from (1977), lecturer in English University of Virginia (spring 1983), and Bard Center fellow Bard College (spring 1984).
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