Name Douglas Terman Role Writer | Died December 28, 1999 | |
Books By balloon to the Sahara, Free Flight, Shell Game | ||
Douglas Terman (December 4, 1933 – December 28, 1999) was an American writer of military novels.
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Biography
He helped develop Petit Saint Vincent as an exclusive resort in the Grenadines with his best friend Hazen Richardson, travelling through the Caribbean on his boats Encantada and Jacinta. *PSV
He spent over twenty years in Warren, VT where he met and befriended many fellow authors, including Ray Montgomery, Edward Packard, Richard Bach, and Ward Just, to name a few.
Terman was the author of one of the early Choose Your Own Adventure books, By Balloon to the Sahara. The book is dedicated to his only child, Christine M. Terman. Terman is also notable for his other military-themed fiction. He wrote from his own experiences, and included many of his friends and loved ones as characters in his books, such as "Walrus".
Terman had military experience during the Cuban Missile Crisis.