Fletcher Knebel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Fletcher Knebel

American novelist, journalist

Date of Birth: 01-Oct-1911

Place of Birth: Dayton, Ohio, United States

Date of Death: 26-Feb-1993

Profession: writer, journalist, novelist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Fletcher Knebel

  • Fletcher Knebel (October 1, 1911 – February 26, 1993) was an American author of several popular works of political fiction. Knebel was born in Dayton, Ohio, but relocated a number of times during his youth.
  • He graduated from high school in Yonkers, New York, spent a year studying at the University of Paris and graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio during 1934.
  • Upon graduation, he received a job offer from the newspaper Coatesville Record of Coatesville, Pennsylvania.
  • He spent the next 20 years working for newspapers, eventually becoming the political columnist for Cowles Publications.
  • From 1951 to 1964, he satirized national politics and government in a nationally published column named "Potomac Fever".During 1960, he wrote a chapter on John F.
  • Kennedy for the book Candidates 1960.
  • This seemed to begin a passion for writing books and he began authoring book-length works.
  • He wrote fifteen books, most of them fiction, and all of them dealing with politics, intrigue and social upheaval.
  • His best-known novel is Seven Days in May (1962, co-authored with Charles W.
  • Bailey), about an attempted military coup in the United States.
  • The book was a great success, reaching number one on the New York Times bestseller list, and was made into a successful movie also named Seven Days in May during 1964. 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.
  • He is the source of the quote: "Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics."

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