After high school graduation in 1957, Mr. Dorr served four years in the Air Force, stationed mostly in Korea. From 1964 to 1989, Mr. Dorr was in the Foreign Service, mainly as a political officer, and his assignments included South Korea, Madagascar, Japan, Sweden, London and Liberia. With money he earned from a paper route, he bought an Underwood typewriter and began writing stories when he was 12. He later settled in San Francisco, attended the University of California at Berkeley and began writing adventure stories for pulp fiction magazines. Mr. Dorr was a columnist for Air Force Times and other military publications and often was a “sympathetic voice for enlisted airmen,” said Kathleen Curthoys, a presentation editor at Military Times.

Source: Washington Post July 03, 2016 20:03 UTC