John C. Keats (1921 – November 3, 2000) was an American writer and biographer.

Biography

Keats was born in

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. He attended the

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and the

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before serving in the

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in the Pacific during World War II. Keats worked for the ''Washington Daily News'' in the 1950s. His debut as an author came in 1956 with '' The Crack in the Picture Window'', a broadside at sprawling suburban housing developments. He also wrote numerous magazine articles, which led to non-fiction books and biographies. In the 1950s, Keats bought "Pine Island", one of the

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, as a vacation home for himself, his wife and their three children. However, at the time of his death in 2000, he was living in Kingston, Ontario, where he had moved in order to be close to the island featured in his 1974 book ''Of Time and an Island''. From 1974 to 1990 Keats taught magazine writing at

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. Keats died on November 3, 2000, in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He was 79.

Works

*'' The Crack in the Picture Window'' (Houghton, 1956) *''The Insolent Chariots'' (Lippincott, 1958) *''Schools Without Scholars'' (Houghton, 1958) *''The Sheepskin Psychosis'' (Lippincott, 1965) *''They Fought Alone'' (Lippincott, 1963) *''What Ever Happened to Mom's Apple Pie: The American Food Industry and How to Cope With It'' (Houghton) 1976 Biographies *''

Howard Hughes Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American business magnate, record-setting pilot, engineer, film producer, and philanthropist, known during his lifetime as one of the most influential and richest people in th ...

: The Biography of a Texas Billionaire'' (Random House; revised edition, 1972) *''You Might as Well Live: The Life and Times of

Dorothy Parker Dorothy Parker (née Rothschild; August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet, writer, critic, and satirist based in New York; she was known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles. From a conflicted and unhap ...

'' (Simon & Schuster, 1970). Other books *''The New Romans: An American Experience'' (Lippincott, 1967) *''Of Time and an Island'' (Charterhouse, 1974)

References

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The Crack in the Picture Window
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