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