Cornelius Ryan

(1920 - 1974)

 

Cornelius Ryan, born in Ireland in 1920, was perhaps more famous for his journalism with the U.S. Third Army during World War II and his subsequent books covering that era than for his time at Collier's.

Ryan joined Collier's in 1951, and in 1952 became the mediator between Collier's management and the scientists and engineers who would contribute to the Collier's space series.

He would go on to write such famous books as The Longest Day (1959), The Last Battle (1966) and A Bridge Too Far (1974) - books about significant events in World War II before his life was cut short by cancer at the age of 54.