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Green Peyton
Green Peyton Wertenbaker (23 December 1907 - 26 July 1968) was a U.S. editor and author.
Born the son of American football coach William C. “Bill” Wertenbaker and hailing from a l...view moreGreen Peyton Wertenbaker (23 December 1907 - 26 July 1968) was a U.S. editor and author.
Born the son of American football coach William C. “Bill” Wertenbaker and hailing from a literary and professional family—his brother Charles Wertenbaker (1901-1955) was a renowned Time journalist and author, and his niece is the noted playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker—Peyton began his writing career as a science fiction writer. One of the pioneers of Hugo Gernsback’s development of “Scientifiction” (scientific fiction), he wrote his first story at the age of 15, The Man from the Atom (1923), which centers on an invention that allows a man to grow so vast and so quickly that he moves beyond into the macrocosm and is unable to return to Earth. A number of other SF stories followed between 1926 and 1930.
In the early 1930’s he turned to writing regional novels: Black Cabin (1933) and Rain on the Mountain (1934), both as Green Peyton (his given names), which became his byline of preference. He also served on the editorial board of Fortune magazine from 1933 to 1938, and became a contributing editor to Time Magazine in 1939.
During World War II he served as an air combat intelligence officer in the Pacific aboard the USS Suwannee and his experiences formed the basis for 5,000 Miles Toward Tokyo (1945).
In 1950 he became involved with the fledgling Aerospace industry, returning to some degree to his first love. He assisted Dr. Hubertus Strughold with The Green and Red Planet (1953), a physiological study of the possibility of life on Mars, and wrote the scripts for a series of thirteen half-hour TV films on the human problems of space flight, Doctors in Space (1958). In 1958 he joined NASA as a speechwriter, eventually becoming chief historian of the Aerospace Medical Division.
He completed Fifty Years of Aerospace Medicine (1968) just before his death.view less
Books by Green Peyton
5000 Miles Towards Tokyo The Chamber of Life Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Coming of the Ice Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings