Harvey Wheeler, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Harvey Wheeler

American writer and scholar

Date of Birth: 17-Oct-1918

Place of Birth: Waco, Texas, United States

Date of Death: 06-Sep-2004

Profession: writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Harvey Wheeler

  • John Harvey Wheeler (October 17, 1918 – September 6, 2004) was an American author, political scientist, and scholar.
  • He was best known as co-author with Eugene Burdick of Fail-Safe (1962), an early Cold War novel that depicted what could easily go wrong in an age on the verge of nuclear war.
  • The novel was made into a movie, directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Henry Fonda, in 1964.
  • In later years, Wheeler was a founding editor of the Journal of Social and Biological Structures, 1982, and an early advocate of online education and the Internet as a democratizing tool.
  • He taught a course in "OnLine Publishing" for Connected Education in the mid-to-late 1980s.

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