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== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
Jack attended Because he spoke German, having taught himself and then studied it in college, Hunter was sent to Germany just after the war ended. He graduated from Penn State (BA Journalism). He studied Aeronautical Engineering at Parks Air College for 4 months. He then turned what was once a hobby into a second career as an aviation artist. He worked as a his first novel was 'The Blue Max', and the publisher remarked that, as a new author, they would not spend the money to have an artist paint a color cover for his book. He worked as a ironically, while his father, whose long career with the Du Pont Company began as a paint color evaluator because of his sensitivity to colors, Hunter was red-green blind. He worked as a news/police reporter for a daily newspaper | He graduated with a BA in journalism from Penn State University in 1943. Jack attended Because he spoke German, having taught himself and then studied it in college, Hunter was sent to Germany just after the war ended. He graduated from Penn State (BA Journalism). | ||
He studied Aeronautical Engineering at Parks Air College for 4 months. | |||
He then turned what was once a hobby into a second career as an aviation artist. He worked as a his first novel was 'The Blue Max', and the publisher remarked that, as a new author, they would not spend the money to have an artist paint a color cover for his book. He worked as a ironically, while his father, whose long career with the Du Pont Company began as a paint color evaluator because of his sensitivity to colors, Hunter was red-green blind. | |||
He worked as a news/police reporter for a daily newspaper. During the 1980s, Hunter served as the writing coach for reporters working at the (now defunct) Jacksonville Journal and for the Florida Times-Union, which still publishes in Jacksonville. He the Allies had discovered that some high-ranking Nazis had gone underground and were waiting until the political atmosphere settled down, at which point the Nazis would infiltrate the new German government. | |||
He augustine, Florida, until he died at age 87 on April 13, 2009. | |||
== Research notes == | == Research notes == | ||