DeWitt Samuel Copp

Background

DeWitt Samuel Copp was born on the 14th of November, 1919 in the United States.

Career

DeWitt Copp began his career as a flight instructor and pilot, serving in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. Later he worked as the international marketing director of the Weather Engineering Corporation, he helped develop equipment that created artificial rain by using airplanes that dropped silver-iodide crystals into clouds. He also worked for the Central Intel­ligence Agency and as a teacher of history and civics at a school in Wilton.

Copp began writing professionally at 19 when his first radio play was broadcast. After the war, he wrote radio and television plays for Kraft Theater, the Bell Telephone Hour and the Hallmark Hall of Fame. DeWitt Samuel published his first book, an aviation thriller, Radius of Action, in 1959. In 1961 he and Marshall Peck Jr., an editor at The New York Herald Tribune, wrote Betrayal at the U.N.: The Story of Paul Bang-Jense.

Hoping to increase United States support for the government in Taiwan, their next collaboration, ''The Odd Day'' (1962), told of the Chinese Communist shelling of the islands of Quemoy and Matsu. Other works by Mr. Copp include ''Incident at Boris Gleb''; ''Overview,'' a history of aerial photography; and ''Famous Soviet Spies.''

Achievements

• DeWitt Samuel Copp is particularly known as the author of more than 30 books, articles, as well as a contributor to periodicals.

Works

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  • A Few Great Captains: The Men and Events That Shaped the Development of U.S. Air Power

    (The rickety frame-and-fabric machines of the early 1900s ...)

    1980
  • Sons of the Morning

    (After a team of scientists disappears on a fossil-hunting...)

    1992
  • The Far Side

    (A story of action and suspense peopled by heroes and vill...)

    1975
  • Forged in Fire: Strategy and Decisions in the Air War over Europe, 1940-45

    (Details the personal and professional relationships of th...)

    1982
  • A Different Kind of Rain

    (It began when a cumulus cloud over a lake in the Canadian...)

    1978
  • The Man They Called Mistai

    (Ian McDonald struggled on the harsh Colorado plains to ma...)

    1971
  • A Matter of Concealment

    (Scott Reardon code clerk, bassoonist, and murderer betray...)

    1989
  • Overview: A Life-long Adventure in Aerial Photography 1969
  • Incident at Boris Gleb: The Tragedy of Newcomb Mott 1968
  • The Odd Day 1962
  • The Pursuit Of Agent M. 1961
  • Betrayal at the U.N.: The Story of Paul Bang-Jensen 1961
  • Radius of Action 1959

Connections

DeWitt Samuel Copp was married to Susan Copp. They have a daughter, Wendy Copp Hodgson and a son, Peter Campbell Copp.

Wife:

Susan Copp

Daughter:

Wendy Copp Hodgson

Son:

Peter Campbell Copp