Frank Laird Harvey

Background

Frank Laird Harvey was born on the 15th of February, 1913 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

Education

Frank Harvey attended Cornell University from 1931 to 1933. In 1937, he received a Bachelor of Science degree from Columbia University.

Career

In 1937, Frank Harvey began his career as a copywriter at the Bethlehem Steel Corporation in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where he served until 1943. From 1943 to 1946, he served with the United States Navy, attaining the rank of lieutenant.

Harvey served as a publicity director for the Daytona Beach Chamber of Commerce in 1946 and later that year moved to New York City, where he worked for William Estey & Corporation. In 1950, Frank joined the staff of Argosy magazine as a contributing editor, a position he left in 1954 to pursue a career as a full-time writer.

Frank's first book was Jet: Stories of the Air Force, that came out in 1954. It was followed by Air Force in 1955, The Lion Pit in 1961, Strike Command in 1962, Nightmare County in 1964, Hudasky's Raiders in 1966, and Air War: Vietnam in 1967. His last work, published posthumously in 1983, was Anthropology of Space: Explorations into the Natural Philosophy and Semantics of the Navajo, with Rik Pinx- ten and Ingrid Van Dooren. Besides, he was the author of a film script. The Navy Story, for Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer, and his stories were anthologized in Best Saturday Evening Post Stories and Cavalcade of Collier's Best of Its Entire Life-Publishing. Also, he was a frequent contributor of stories and articles to various magazines, including Saturday Evening Post, Argosy, Collier's, Popular Science, and Good Housekeeping.

Achievements

• Frank Harvey is particularly known as the author of books, as well as a contributor of stories and articles about the Air Force. He received the William Strebig Award from the Aviation Writers Association for the best aviation article of 1954.

Works

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  • Jet: Stories of the Air Force

    (Seven stories set in the U.S. Air Force during the 1950s,...)

    1954
  • Strike Command: America's Elite New Combat Team 1962
  • Air War: Vietnam 1967
  • The Lion Pit 1961
  • Nightmare County 1964
  • Hudasky's Raiders 1966

Membership

Frank Laird Harvey was a member of the Aviation/Space Writers Association, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the Society of Magazine Writers (present-day the American Society of Journalists and Authors), the Authors League, and the Writers Guild of America West.

Connections

There is no information about Frank Harvey's private life.