Dwight Vreeland Swain (November 17, 1915 – February 24, 1992), born in Rochester, Michigan, was an American author, screenwriter and teacher. Swain was a member of the Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame.

Career

His first published story was "Henry Horn's Super Solvent", which appeared in '' Fantastic Adventures'' in 1941. He contributed stories of the genres of science fiction, mystery, Western, and action adventure to a variety of magazines of the pulp variety. His first published book was ''The Transposed Man'' (1955), which appeared as Ace Double D-113, bound

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with J.T. McIntosh's ''One In Three Hundred''. He published several more novels, including ''The Horde From Infinity'', vended as another Ace Double with ''The Day The Earth Froze'' by Gerald Hatch. During the 1960s, he scripted a motion picture, '' Stark Fear'', featuring Keith Toby and Beverly Garland.

Teaching

He joined the staff of the successful Professional Writing Program of the University of Oklahoma, training writers of commercial fiction and movies. He pioneered scripting documentaries and educational/instructional movies using dramatic techniques, rather than the previously common talking heads. He later published 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 in demand as a speaker at writers' conferences throughout the USA and Mexico.askmar publishing
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