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Sorry, that page doesn't exist or is preventing translations. Sorry, that page doesn't exist or is preventing translations. Something went wrong, please try again. Try using the Translator for the Microsoft Edge extension instead. William Brinkley. William Clark "Bill" Brinkley (September 10, 1917 – November 22, 1993) was an American writer and journalist, best known for his 1988 novel, The Last Ship , and his 1956 novel, Don't Go Near the Water , which was later adapted to film in 1957 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as Don't Go Near the Water . The Last Ship is slated for a 2014 television adaptation. [4] Contents. Early life and education [ edit | edit source ] Brinkley was born in Custer City, Oklahoma on September 10, 1917, the son of a minister. The youngest of five children, Brinkley attended the University of Oklahoma and graduated as a Phi Beta Kappa in 1940. [5] Naval service [ edit | edit source ] Brinkley was a commissioned officer in the United States Navy during World War II, where he served in Europe and the Pacific, primarily in public relations duties. [6] Career [ edit | edit source ] After graduating from the University of Oklahoma in 1940, Brinkley went on to work for The Daily Oklahoman in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Afterwards, Brinkley was a reporter for The Washington Post from 1941 to 1942 and from 1949 to 1951. He was also a staff writer, correspondent and assistant editor and for Life magazine from 1951 to 1958. Brinkley was also a member of the National Press Club until his death in 1993. [7] In 1948, after his tenure as an officer in the U.S. Navy during World War II, Brinkley wrote and published his first novel, Quicksand , in 1948. In 1954, Brinkley wrote his only non-fiction book, The Deliverance of Sister Cecelia , a biography of a Slovakian nun based her memoirs as recited to him. The novel was later adapted into an episode of Climax! in 1955. In 1956, he went on to write the best-selling novel and perhaps his most prominent work, Don't Go Near the Water , a comedy about U.S. Navy sailors serving in the South Pacific during World War II. Don't Go Near the Water would later be adapted into film by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as Don't Go Near the Water . Don't Go Near the Water was released in theaters across the United States in 1957 and became both a critical and commercial success. [8] [9] [10] In peacetime Lieutenant Commander Clinton T. Nash had been in charge of a Merill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Beane office in the Midwest. Not long after Pearl Harbor he had been commissioned directly from his brokerage office without the corrupting effect of any intervening naval training. William Brinkley, Don't Go Near the Water , Chapter 1. [11] In 1961, Brinkley wrote and published The Fun House , a comedy novel set in the offices of a picture magazine, similar to that of Life . The following year, in 1962, Brinkley wrote and published the novel, The Two Susans , which was followed in 1966 by The Ninety and Nine , a novel detailing life on board a United States Navy LST operating in the Mediterranean Sea and at Anzio during World War II. [12] In 1971, Brinkley moved to McAllen, Texas and would live there until his death in 1993. Throughout the 1970s, Brinkley only wrote one novel, Breakpoint , a novel about tennis, published in 1978. Brinkley's 1978 novel about tennis, Breakpoint , was followed by Peeper , a comedy novel about a voyeur in the small Texas town of Martha, Texas, near the Rio Grande. Peeper was written by Brinkley and published in December 1981. In March 1988, Brinkley wrote and published his last work, The Last Ship , a post-apocalyptic fiction novel dealing with the sailors of the USS Nathan James (DDG-80), a fictional United States Navy guided missile destroyer, which survives a brief, full-scale global nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union. [13] [14] [15] Later life and death [ edit | edit source ] On November 22, 1993, after suffering from a major depressive disorder for over several years, Brinkley died by suicide at his home in McAllen, Texas, near the Gulf of Mexico, at the age of 76, from an of barbiturates. He was survived by his wife, Jean Brinkley, along with his sister, Virginia McCabe, his brother, Paul Brinkley, and his stepson, David Shelander. [16] Don’t Go Near the Water. Dont Go Near the Water is a lighthearted, comedic war novel, dealing with public relations officers in the United States Navy during World War II. In the novel, the officers are assigned to the fictional Pacific island of Tulura, which became the advanced headquarters of the Pacific Fleet during World War II. Racial Issues in Entertainment Media. In the 1950s notions of racial inequality that had been taken for granted before WWII began to surface in entertainment media. In examples of popular television, film, and novels I find subtle and not so subtle influences where race relations become an underlying theme. In three different types of popular media from the era, Don’t Go near the Water (a novel published in 1956), Giant (a film produced in 1956), and I Love Lucy (a television show premiering in 1951) I come across the themes of race and how each deals with and interacts with interracial marriage. Don’t Go near the Water is a novel about public relations officers in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific during WWII. One such officer, Ensign Siegel, falls in love with a beautiful and intelligent girl named Melora, a native to the islands. At first Siegel is drawn only to Melora’s exquisite beauty, but soon after he learns to prize her fine mind and personality and appreciate her company. Throughout the novel many differences in each person are pointed out. These differences portray how each character interacts with another introducing the idea of power differences based on race, class, military rank, education, and gender. During war soldiers occupying countries often used their power to take advantage of the innocent native girls making promises they never intended to keep, and leaving them behind when the war ends. For example in Don’t Go Near the Water an officer tries to take advantage of Melora assuming she is an ignorant and poor villager, but he ends up being the one swindled when she records his words on tape and Siegel helps her blackmail him into paying for a new schoolhouse on the island. On the other hand some soldiers would make an effort to cross the race, class, and education barriers to actually get to know these girls. In Don’t Go Near the Water Ensign Siegel gets to know Melora and falls in love with her personality and intelligence, he even begins to think about marriage. But Siegel is subjected to the reality that despite being an educated and well to do man where he comes from in the U.S. here on the island he is no one. He hasn’t studied at a school in Europe, and his rank in the military means nothing to these people and so without any credentials he has to prove to Melora’s father he is worthy of her. As Siegel gains the respect of Melora’s father and begins to think about a possible life with Melora he realizes she has too many responsibilities to leave her world even for him. He decides to stay on the island with her, crossing the racial barriers and becoming something in her world, leaving America behind. Ensign Siegel marrying Melora and staying on the island with her is a completely new idea in the 1950s. He leaves everything he has in the U.S. and ignoring the rules of his society, marries a native islander. Marrying someone of a different race in American society during the 1950s was greatly frowned upon and unaccepted, and in some states illegal. But Siegel breaks the rules of his society and stays with her crossing the race barriers and becoming an example of the possibility of interracial marriage despite it being unaccepted in American society. The film Giant was produced in 1956 in the post WWII era and follows the story of a young wealthy couple cattle ranching in Texas. Throughout the film we see how differently the Mexican-Americans in Texas are treated and the injustices done unto them because of so called “racial differences”. In one scene Bick is angry at his young wife Leslie for going into the poor Mexican-American village and helping a woman with her sick child, but Leslie tells him “I don’t think you understand there was a child dying, he needed help.” To Leslie the idea of not treating someone with care and consideration simply because of their color is unheard of and she refuses to change her ways despite Bick’s demands.
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