

Yorktown and the Japanese Fleet, and an autobiographical The Long Way Around which influenced his Korean War book Hold Back the Night. In non-fiction, Frank wrote How to Survive the H Bomb and Why, Rendezvous at Midway U.S.S. Adam, Forbidden Area, and Hold Back the Night in addition to Alas Babylon. Most of his fiction writing dealt with post-apocalyptic, nuclear aftermath, and war themes: Mr. He began writing as a journalist and worked for the Office of War Information as a correspondent in Italy, Austria, Germany and Turkey in WWII. He is best-known for his 1959 post-apocalyptic novel Alas Babylon. Pat Frank, né Harry Hart Frank, (May 5, 1908-October 12, 1964) was an American writer, newspaperman, and government consultant.
