16 Facts About Robb White

Robb White III was an American writer of screenplays, television scripts, and adventure novels.

Robb White III was born to Episcopal missionaries, Placidia and Robb White, in Baguio, Luzon, in the Philippines.

Robb White had no formal education before entering the Episcopal High School in New York City, New York.

Robb White later attended the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, graduated as an ensign in 1931, and then worked briefly as a draftsman and construction engineer for DuPont.

The couple settled in Sea Cows Bay on the island of Tortola, where the insects were so severe that Robb White put his typewriter in a boat and wrote in the middle of the bay each day.

One afternoon, after landing on what they thought was large and better-known Great Camanoe, Robb White walked off in one direction along the beach and Rodie in the other.

Robb White served in the US Navy during World War II and was present at the Battle of Leyte Gulf, which took place near his birthplace.

Robb White flew as a pilot in the war and earned eight medals.

Robb White was discharged with the rank of lieutenant commander after five years of service.

The British government had never issued them a license to hold the land and now formally refused, stating that Robb White's published writings had misrepresented conditions in the British Virgin Islands.

Robb White was determined to be a writer from the age of 13.

Robb White wrote for television, including Men of Annapolis and The Silent Service, plus episodes of Perry Mason.

Robb White attributed this to their good, decent and courageous nature, exactly the kind of people about whom he enjoyed writing.

Robb White's daughter Bailey is an author and a commentator on NPR.

White's son, Robb IV, was a Georgia boat-builder who penned a 2003 memoir entitled How to Build a Tin Canoe; shorter writings were collected in 2009's Flotsam and Jetsam.

Some of Robb White's works have been adapted to motion pictures.