<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <link href="../css/main.css" type="text/css" rel="Stylesheet" /> <title>About the Author </title> </head> <body class="epub"> <div class="section1"> <div class="title2"> <h2>About the Author</h2> </div> <p class="drop"> <span class="drop">E</span>ugene Burdick (1918-1965) taught at the University of California at Berkely and was chairman of the World Affairs Council in San Francisco. Among his many books is <em>The Ugly American</em>, the internationally famous novel written with Bill Lederer.</p> </div> </body> </html>