Edwin Palmer Hoyt
Edwin Palmer Hoyt Jr. | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 5, 1923 Portland, Oregon,U.S. |
| Died | July 29, 2005(aged 81) Tokyo,Japan |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Subject | Military history |
Edwin Palmer Hoyt Jr.(August 5, 1923 – July 29, 2005) was an American writer and historian who specialized inmilitary history.Until 1958, Hoyt worked in news media, after which he produced non-fiction works.
Early life
[edit]He was born inPortland, Oregonto the publisherEdwin Palmer Hoyt(1897–1979)[1]and his wife, the former Cecile DeVore (1901–1970).[2]A younger brother, Charles Richard, was born in 1928. Hoyt attended theUniversity of Oregonfrom 1940 to 1943.
Career
[edit]In 1943, Hoyt's father, then the editor and publisher ofThe Oregonian,was appointed by PresidentFranklin Rooseveltas the director of the Domestic Branch,Office of War Information.[3]The younger Hoyt served with the Office of War Information duringWorld War II,from 1943 to 1945. In 1945 and 1946, he served as a foreign correspondent forThe Denver Post(of which his father became editor and publisher in 1946)[3]and theUnited Press,reporting from locations inChina,Thailand,Burma,India,theMiddle East,Europe,North Africa,andKorea.
Edwin Hoyt subsequently worked as anABCbroadcaster, covering the1948 revolution in Czechoslovakiaand theArab-Israeli conflict.From 1949 to 1951, he was the editor of the editorial page atThe Denver Post.He was the editor and publisher of theColorado Springs Free Pressfrom 1951 to 1955, and an associate editor ofCollier's Weeklyin New York from 1955 to 1956. In 1957 he was a television producer and writer-director atCBS,and in 1958 he was an assistant publisher ofAmerican Heritagemagazine in New York.
Starting in 1958, Hoyt became a full-time writer, and for a few years (1976 to 1980) he served as a part-time lecturer at theUniversity of Hawaii.In the 40 years since his first publication in 1960, he produced nearly 200 published works. While Hoyt wrote about 20novels(many published under the pseudonyms Christopher Martin and Cabot L. Forbes), the vast majority of his works are biographies and other forms ofnon-fiction,with a heavy emphasis onWorld War II military history.
Hoyt died inTokyo,Japan on July 29, 2005, after a prolonged illness. He was survived by his wife Hiroko, of Tokyo, and three children, Diana, Helga, and Christopher, all residing in the U.S.
Selected works
[edit]- Jumbos and Jackasses: A Popular History of Political Wars.New York: Doubleday (1960)OCLC1313217
- One Penny Black:The Story ofStamp Collecting.Duell, Sloan & Pearce (1965)
- TheHouse of Morgan.Dodd, Mead & Company (Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 66-24266) (1966)OCLC740453
- The Last Cruise of theEmden:The Amazing True WWI Story of a German-Light Cruiser and Her Courageous Crew.London: Andre Deutsch (1967)OCLC1394730
- The Army Without A Country.Macmillan: New York (1967)OCLC843778
- The American Attitude: The Story of the Making of Foreign Policy in the United States.Abelard (1970)ISBN0200716948OCLC128452
- Leyte Gulf:The Death of thePrinceton.Lancer Books (1972)OCLC329290
- Raider Wolf:The Voyage ofCaptain Nerger,1916 - 1918.NY: Paul S. Eriksson, Inc. (1974)ISBN0839770677OCLC1128815
- Blue Skies and Blood:The Battle of the Coral Sea.VT: Eriksson (1975)ISBN0839710216OCLC1573089
- Alan Watts:The Rise and Decline of the Ordained Shaman of the Counterculture,(under pseudonym David Stuart)Chilton Book Co,PA (1976)
- U-Boats Offshore: When Hitler Struck America.NY: Stein & Day (1978)ISBN0812825055OCLC3845550
- McCampbell's Heroes: The Navy's Most Celebrated Carrier Fighters of the Pacific War,reprint, NY: Avon.
- Storm over the Gilberts: War in the Central Pacific: 1943,NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1978, reprint, NY: Avon, 1983,ISBN0-380-63651-4.
- To the Marianas: War in the Central Pacific: 1944,reprint, NY: Avon.
- Closing the Circle: War in the Central Pacific: 1945,reprint, NY: Avon.
- USS Constitution: The Exciting Story of Old Ironsides,Pinnacle Books INC, NY (1976)ISBN0-523-00866-X
- The Men of theGambier Bay,VT: Paul S. Eriksson, Inc. (1979)ISBN0839757905
- Guerilla:Colonel von Lettow-Vorbeckand Germany's East African Empire.Macmillan (1981)
- The Pusan Perimeter.NY: Stein and Day (1984)ISBN0812829603OCLC10483199
- On To The Yalu.NY: Stein and Day (1984)ISBN0-8128-2977-8
- The Militarists: The Rise ofJapanese MilitarismSince WW II.New York: D.I. Fine (1985)ISBN0917657179
- Japan's War: The Great Pacific Conflict, 1853 to 1952.NY: McGraw (1986)ISBN0070306125OCLC12722494
- Hitler's War(1988)ISBN0-07-030622-2
- The GI's War: The Story of American Soldiers in Europe in WW II.McGraw-Hill (May 1988)ISBN0070306273OCLC17107693
- The Rise of the Chinese Republic.McGraw-Hill (1989)ISBN0-07-030619-2
- Hirohito:The Emperor and the Man.NY:Praeger(1992)ISBN978-0-275-94069-0;OCLC23766658
- 199 Days: TheBattle for Stalingrad.Tor Books. (1993)ISBN978-0-312-85463-8
- Angels of Death:Goering'sLuftwaffe.NY: Forge (1994)ISBN0312856687
- Mussolini's Empire:The Rise and Fall of the Fascist Vision.NY: John Wiley & Sons (1994)ISBN0471591513
- Inferno: TheFirebombing of Japan,March 9 – August 15, 1945.Madison Books (2000)ISBN978-1-56833-149-2
- The LastKamikaze:The Story of AdmiralMatome Ugaki.NY: Praeger (2008)ISBN978-0-313-36065-7
References
[edit]- ^Ennis, Thomas W. (27 June 1979)."Palmer Hoyt, 82, Dies in Denver; Ex-Editor and Publisher of Post".The New York Times.
- ^"The Denver Public Library EAD ProjectINTRODUCTION".eadsrv.denverlibrary.org.Archived fromthe originalon 2018-11-08.Retrieved2009-10-04.
- ^ab"Edwin Palmer Hoyt PapersArchived2018-11-08 at theWayback Machine"(Biographical Note). Western History Collection,The Denver Public Library.Retrieved October 4, 2009.
- "Edwin P(almer) Hoyt, Jr." inContemporary Authors Online(2009). Gale Publishing. Retrieved October 4, 2009.
