Dwight V. Swain
Dwight Vreeland Swain (November 17, 1915 – February 24, 1992), born in Rochester, Michigan, was an American author, screenwriter and teacher. Swain is a member of the Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame.[1]
Career[]
His first published story was "Henry Horn's Super Solvent", which appeared in Fantastic Adventures in 1941. He contributed stories in the science fiction, mystery, Western, and action adventure genres to a variety of pulp magazines. His first published book was The Transposed Man (1955), which appeared as Ace Double D-113, bound dos-à-dos with J.T. McIntosh's One in Three Hundred.[2] In the 1960s, he scripted a motion picture, Stark Fear, starring Beverly Garland and Keith Toby.
Teaching[]
He joined the staff in the extremely successful Professional Writing Program at the University of Oklahoma, training writers of commercial fiction and film. He pioneered scripting documentaries and educational/instructional films using dramatic techniques, rather than the previously common talking heads.
He later wrote non-fiction books about writing, including Techniques of the Selling Writer; Film Scriptwriting; Creating Characters: How to Build Story People; and Scripting for Video and Audiovisual Media, and was much in demand as a speaker at writers' conferences throughout the US and Mexico.[3]
References[]
- ^ The Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame Archived 2016-11-08 at the Wayback Machine 7 November 2013
- ^ askmar publishing Archived 2018-02-22 at the Wayback Machine 28 May 2013
- ^ askmar publishing Archived 2018-02-22 at the Wayback Machine 28 May 2013
External links[]
- Works by Dwight V. Swain at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Dwight V. Swain at Internet Archive
- Dwight V. Swain at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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