- Pat Frank
Pat Frank (
May 5 ,1908 –October 12 ,1964 ) is thepen name of the American writer, newspaperman, and government consultant Harry Hart Frank. [ [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,897355,00.html TIME ] ] Frank's most well-known work is the 1959 post-apocalyptic novel "Alas, Babylon ". His other books include "Mr. Adam " and "Forbidden Area".Biography
Frank was born in Chicago in 1908. Frank spent many years as a journalist and information handler for several newspapers, agencies, and government bureaus. [ [http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/3279/Pat_Frank/index.aspx?authorID=3279 Pat Frank from HarperCollins Publishers] ] During his early career, he lived mainly in
Florida apart from a couple of years inNew York andWashington (and service overseas duringWorld War II , when he worked for the Office of War Information and was a correspondent in Italy, Austria, Germany, and Turkey). [ [http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/filmography.html?p_id=212183&mod=bio Pat Frank Biography at "The New York Times"] ]Works
Nearly all men are sterile in "
Mr. Adam " (1946), Frank's first published work. His other novels include "Hold Back the Night", "An Affair of State," and "Forbidden Area." Frank's experiences reporting on the Korean conflict are described in his autobiographical travelogue "The Long Way Round" and influenced "Hold Back the Night".Frank wrote his most popular work, the post-apocalyptic novel "
Alas, Babylon ", while living inTangerine, Florida , on Lake Beauclaire near Mount Dora. Vivian Owens, an author familiar with local history, states that "Pistolville," the name Frank gave to an area near Fort Repose in the novel, was in fact a location situated just between the southern edge of Mount Dora to its north and Tangerine to its south. [Owens, Vivian W. The Mount Dorans: African American History Notes of a Florida Town. Waynesboro: Eschar, 2000.] According to Owens, greater Mount Dora was intended by Frank to be the model for his semi-fictional Fort Repose. ["Alas, Babylon: Mount Dora, Florida." Everything2.com. 18 Oct. 2006. 18 Oct. 2006Frank also authored a 160 page non-fiction book, "How To Survive the H Bomb And Why" (1962).
Frank received the
American Heritage Foundation Award in 1961.ee also
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Survivalism
*Retreat (survivalism)
*Fallout shelter
*Alas, Babylon References
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