C. D. B. Bryan (1936-2009) was an award-winning author of nonfiction books, novels, and magazine articles. After graduating from Yale University, where he was chairman of the campus humor magazine, and serving in the army in Korea, Bryan wrote for The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, Rolling Stone, and the New York Times Book Review, and taught writing at Colorado State University and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.
