Carl Fick (born August 5, 1918, Evanston, Illinois) was the director of several documentaries including the Cannes award-winning A Day in the Death of Donny B and the author of two novels, The Danziger Transcript and A Disturbance in Paris.
The Danziger Transcript was published in hardcover by Putnam in 1971, and in mass market paperback by Dell in 1974.
He also co-authored or ghost-wrote From Mexico with Death with Jose Luis Guzman, published in 1977 by Zebra.
A Disturbance in Paris was published by Little, Brown in 1982.
He attended Cornell University, graduating in 1940 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.
While an undergraduate, he wrote a weekly column for the Trumansburg Leader.
In 1941, he married Shirley Stevens Stuart in Bronxville, New York.After graduating, he went to work for Collier's magazine as a staff writer.
But then the US entered World War II, and Fick went to serve in England in the US Army Air Corps.