![]() ![]() The editor made Brian do a lot of re-writing. The editor picked Brian's manuscript out of the "slush" pile (unsolicited manuscripts) because it was the most neatly typed, but it wasn't accepted right away. Del Rey Books accepted it and started him on his writing career. While attending college and working as a waiter at a local steak house, he also wrote his first novel, Doomfarers of Coromande. ![]() Then he went to Berlin, Germany.Īfter the army he went to Jersey City State College, majoring in media. He also read a LOT of science fiction as a kid, and that inspired him.Īfter he graduated from high school in 1965 he joined the army and went to Vietnam for a year's tour of duty. He said he wanted to write from an early age, about third grade. He went to Nathan Hale Elementary School in Norwood, NJ, and a consolidated High School - Northern Valley Regional High School in Old Tappan, NJ.īrian loved to read, drive his '74 Corvette Stingray, spend summers with me on Martha's Vineyard, and travel to wild and exotic places like the jungles of Guatemala and Mexico, and the mountains of Nepal. ![]() He had no children of his own, but he was always great with his two nieces and four nephews. He has an older brother, David, and a younger sister, also named Myra. His mother's name was Myra and his father's name was Charles. A blizzard kept him and his mother at the hospital over Christmas, and the nurses sang "Away in a Manger" to them. Brian was born in Englewood Hospital in Englewood, New Jersey on Dec. ![]()
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