Huie, William Bradford, 1910-1986 (Personal Name)

His Mud on the stars ... 1942.

NUCMC data from Univ. of Florida Libr. for Hurston, Z.N. Papers, 1932-1960 (William Bradford Huie)

Washington Post, 11/24/86 (William Bradford Huie, 76, Southern-born journalist, writer, and crusader for civil rights, d. 11/22/1986)

Encyclopedia of Alabama, via WWW, September 9, 2013 (William Bradford Huie; William Bradford "Bill" Huie (1910-1986) ranks as one of Alabama's most prolific authors; over the course of his long career, Huie (pronounced "hue-ee") published numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, but he is perhaps best known as an investigative journalist; his career spanned most of the twentieth century; he was born November 13, 1910 in Hartselle; he worked as a journalis for the the Birmingham Post, from 1932 to 1936; in 1937, he founded, along with Hubert Baughn, Alabama: The News Magazine of the Deep South; his first novel, Mud on the Stars, was published in 1942; Huie served in the Navy during World War II; the war provided Huie with material for several nonfiction works, including The Hero of Iwo Jima (1962), and works of fiction, such as The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1951) and The Americanization of Emily (1959); he was associate editor and editor for the American Mercury from 1946 to 1952; in the early 1950s, Huie also served as a moderator and co-host on Chronoscope; one of his most successful books, The Execution of Private Slovik, was published in 1954; in 1957, Huie moved back to Alabama to live full-time and continued to work as a freelance writer for the rest of his life; in 1975, Huie published his last novel, In the Hours of Night, a fictionalized account of former Secretary of Defense James Forrestal)

Wikipedia, September 9, 2013 (William Bradford Huie; William Bradford "Bill" Huie (November 13, 1910-November 20, 1986) was an American journalist, editor, publisher, television interviewer, screenwriter, lecturer, and novelist; he died in Guntersville, AL)