Eugene Burdick

Eugene Burdick (12 December 1918 - 26 July 1965), was co-author of The Ugly American (1958), Fail-Safe (1962) and The 480 (1965).

Born in Sheldon, Iowa he moved to Los Angeles, California at the age of 4.

Burdick attended Stanford University and Oxford University where he earned a Ph.D. degree in psychology. In 1956 his critically acclaimed novel The Ninth Wave, a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship winner, was published. He died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 46.

Works

• The Ugly American in 1958 (co-author, with William Lederer).
• The Blue of Capricorn in 1961.
• Fail-Safe in 1962 (co-authored with Harvey Wheeler).
• Sarkhan: a novel (co-author, with William Lederer).
• The 480 in 1965 (co-author, with William Lederer).
• Nina's Book in 1965.
• The Deceptive American, (co-author, with William Lederer).

All three future history works have the same theme — accidental nuclear war — with the same plot.

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