Joseph Bryan III was a journalist and writer who was born into the influential Bryan family of newspaper publishers and industrialists. He edited and wrote for many national publications, including the family-owned Richmond News Leader and Chicago Daily Journal, as well as Parade, Time, Fortune, Town and Country, Reader’s Digest, the Saturday Evening Post, and the New Yorker. He wrote numerous articles on travel, humor, and celebrities, some of which evolved into books or reappeared as portions of his books.
Books in order of publication:
Mission Beyond Darkness – 1945
Aircraft Carrier – 1954
The World’s Greatest Showman: The Life of P.T. Barnum – 1956
The Windsor Story – 1979
Hodgepodge – 1986
Gallimaufry to Go – 1990
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