Fletcher Knebel
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Born | Dayton, Ohio | October 1, 1911
Died | February 26, 1993 Honolulu, Hawaii | (aged 81)
Alma mater | Miami University, Oxford, Ohio |
Notable works | Seven Days in May |
Fletcher Knebel (October 1, 1911 – February 26, 1993) was an American author of several popular works of political fiction.
Knebel was born in
During 1960, he wrote a chapter on
Knebel was married four times from 1935 to 1985. He committed suicide after a long bout with cancer, by taking an overdose of sleeping pills in his home in Honolulu, Hawaii, during 1993.[1] He is the source of the quote: "Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics."
Bibliography
- Seven Days in May (1962) (described above).
- political convention.
- Night of Camp David (1965), about a President of the United States who may be insane.
- The ZinZin Road (1966), about Peace Corps workers in Africa caught in an incipient revolution.
- Vanished (1968), about the political effects of the sudden, mysterious disappearance of the main aide to the President of the United States during a contentious re-election campaign.
- Trespass (1969), about black militants occupying homes owned by rich Caucasians and demanding that title be given to the militants as the beginning of the creation of a black nation in the American South.
- Dark Horse (1972), about a minor official chosen to replace a Presidential candidate who died shortly before the election.
- Poker Game (1973), a story set in the world of computers.
- The Bottom Line (1974), a novel about a business company convention and a man who found there's also a bottom line in private lives.
- Dave Sulkin Cares! (1978), a story of love between two con artists, Gail and Johnny.
- Crossing in Berlin (1981), about an American man assisting an East German woman escape from East Germany.
- Sabotage (1986), about sabotage of oil tankers by Japanese organized crime mobsters.
Generally, Knebel's works are products of the times during which they were produced. For instance, the delegate in Convention changes her vote after learning that the candidate she had originally favored is using a computer to track personal information about the delegates. Vanished involved concerns about superpower nuclear proliferation during the Cold War. Trespass concerns black militancy of the type that largely ended during the late 1970s. Knebel was also a staunch liberal[2] who was "suspicious of the size and power of the American military" and intelligence community, as he wrote in Dark Horse; many of his novels represented that opinion.
References
- ^ a b Lambert, Bruce (February 28, 1993). "Fletcher Knebel, Writer, 81, Dies; Co-Author of 'Seven Days in May'". The New York Times. Archived from the original on June 28, 2012. Retrieved March 31, 2017.
- ^ "Fletcher Knebel Critical Essays - eNotes.com".
External links
- Fletcher Knebel at IMDb