1. Anton Olmstead Myrer was a United States Marine Corps veteran and a best-selling author of American war novels that accurately and sensitively depict the lives of United States military personnel while in combat and in peace time.
12 Facts About Anton Myrer
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Anton Myrer prepared at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire before entering Harvard College in September 1941 with the Class of 1945.
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Anton Myrer's studies were interrupted after the December 7,1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Anton Myrer participated in the Battle of Guam and the occupation of the remaining Mariana Islands afterwards.
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Anton Myrer was wounded in Guam and was promoted to the rank of corporal before being discharged in 1946.
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Anton Myrer separated from his wife and divorced her in 1970.
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Anton Myrer wrote three more novels: The Tiger Waits ; The Last Convertible ; and A Green Desire in.
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Anton Myrer died on January 19,1996, of leukemia at the age of 73.
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On February 20,1996, Patricia Myrer wrote a letter to her close friend, popular Chicago radio personality Art Hellyer, informing him that Anton had suffered from acute leukemia for nine months prior to his death and had been in isolation in a local hospital.
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Anton Myrer thanked Art Hellyer for the mix tapes that he had sent and said that Anton had died in her arms.
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Patricia Anton Myrer donated case leather-bound volumes of six of his eight novels to the library.
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In 1997, Patricia Anton Myrer donated funds to the United States Army War College Foundation and the republication rights to her husband's novel Once An Eagle.