With its proximity to the cultural hub of New York City and its quieter suburban and rural landscapes, Connecticut was fertile ground for artists and writers in the period of Modernist movements between 1913 and 1979. Many of these cultural figures are well known through biographical and critical studies. Creative Places seeks to show how place played a significant role in creative work, and how in turn the artists and writers influenced communities in Connecticut.
Courtlandt D. B. Bryan
Education/Curation, Fiction, Journalism/Non-Fiction
1936 – 2009
- Biography/Description of Work
C. D. B. Bryan was an author, journalist and teacher. He attended Yale University in 1958, served in the Army in South Korea the following two years, and again during the Berlin Crisis of 1961. His first novel, “P. S. Wilkinson,” spoke to the difficulties of returning to society after military service and won the Harper Prize for unknown writers in 1965. His best known work is an account of the accidental death of a soldier in Vietnam and his family’s loss and reaction back home. Entitled “Friendly Fire,” it began as a series of articles in the New Yorker , was published as a book in 1976, and the book was in turn adapted into a television movie starring Carol Burnett in 1979. Other works include two novels and several coffee-table books about the National Geographic Society and the National Air and Space Museum. Bryan also taught throughout his career from 1967 through 1984, at colleges in the west and on the east coast. Bryan was a resident of Guilford from the early 1970s.
- Sources view
- Joel Helander, Guilford Town Historian, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._D._B._Bryan, C. D. B. Bryan Article - New York Times - 1964-9-9, C. D. B. Bryan Mother and Father Wedding Announcement - New York Times - 1930-10-5, C. D. B. Bryan Obituary - New York Times - 2009-12-18
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