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Myrer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Anton Myrer (1922–1996), United States Marine Corps veteran and novelist * Patricia Schartle Myrer (1923–2010), American editor, literary agent, and publishing executive, wife of Anton See also *Myer (name) Myer is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname: *Albert J. Myer (1828–1880), American Army officer and surgeon considered the father of the Army Signal Corps and the US Weather Bureau *Buddy Myer (1904–19 ...

Anton Myrer
Anton Olmstead Myrer (November 3, 1922 – January 19, 1996) was a United States Marine Corps veteran and a best-selling author of American war novels that accurately and sensitively depict the lives of United States military personnel while in combat and in peace time. His 1968 novel, '' Once An Eagle'', written at the peak of the Vietnam War, is required reading for all Marines and is frequently used in leadership training at West Point. The novel, considered a classic of military literature and a guide to honorable conduct in the profession of arms, has been compared favorably to Leo Tolstoy's magnum opus ''War and Peace''. Eight years after publication, '' Once an Eagle'' was made into a television mini-series starring Sam Elliott. Glenn Ford played a supporting character. Myrer wrote eight other novels, of which ''The Big War'' (1957) was adapted for a movie in 1958 and ''The Last Convertible'' (1978) was made into a television mini-series in 1979. '' Once An Eagle'' (1 ...
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Patricia Schartle Myrer
Patricia Schartle Myrer (1923–2010) was an editor, literary agent and publishing executive based in New York City. She was editor-in-chief of Appleton-Century-Crofts publishing. She eventually became president of McIntosh & Otis literary agency. She married novelist Anton Myrer in 1970. Some of the authors she represented were Mary Higgins Clark, Patricia Highsmith and Eleanor Hibbert. She retired in 1984 and died in 2010. Personal life Patricia Schartle grew up in Asheville, North Carolina. Her father was a drug wholesaler. She was the youngest of seven children. In 1942, at the age of 19, she married a submarine sailor, who was killed in the Second World War six months later. After graduation from the University of North Carolina with a degree in English Literature, she moved to New York City in 1947 to start her career in publishing. While working as a literary agent, she divided her time between an apartment in Brooklyn Heights and a farmhouse in the Catskills. Schartle i ...
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