Pat Frank

Harry Hart "Pat" Frank was an American newspaperman, writer, and government consultant. Perhaps the "first of the post-Hiroshima doomsday authors", his best known work is his post-apocalyptic novel Alas, Babylon (1959), which depicted the outbreak of a nuclear war and the struggles of its survivors in a small central Florida town.

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