Peter George

Writing

Born: March 26, 1924

Birthplace: Treorchy, Wales, UK

Peter Bryan George (26 March 1924 – 1 June 1966) was a Welsh author, most famous for the 1958 Cold War thriller novel Red Alert, published initially with the title Two Hours to Doom and written using the pseudonym Peter Bryant. The book was the inspiration for Stanley Kubrick's film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter George (author), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.