Robin Moore
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Robin Moore (born October 31, 1925) is a U.S. writer who co-authored the lyrics of "Ballad of the Green Berets", and the books The Green Berets, The French Connection: A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy and, with Xaviera Hollander and Yvonne Dunleavy, The Happy Hooker: My Own Story.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Moore attended Middlesex School, Belmont Hill School. He flew combat missions over Germany in the closing months of World War II, and graduated from Harvard College in 1949. He worked in television production and then at the Sheraton Hotel Company co-founded by his father. While working in the hotel business in the Caribbean, he recorded the early days of Castro in the non-fiction book The Devil To Pay. Connections with his Harvard classmate Robert F. Kennedy led to his joining US Special Forces in a civilian role and writing a book about the Green Berets. Another book, The Khaki Mafia, written with June Collins, gives a fictional account of the Vietnam service club scandal involving Sergeant Major of the Army William O. Wooldridge and others.
During the 1970's and 1980's Robin travelled widely spending time in such places as Dubai, Iran, Rhodesia and Russia. Having gathered the information needed he wrote "Dubai", "The White Tribe", and 'The Moscow Connection".
December, 2001 was spent in Afghanistan where he travelled widely and then wrote the bestseller, "The Hunt for Bin Laden". In 2003 he went to Iraq and then wrote "Hunting Down Saddam".
Robin's latest book, co-authored with Major General Geoffrey (Jeff) Lambert, USASF(Ret), "The Singleton - Target Cuba" is a novel about Castro and biological warfare.
He is listed as "creator" of the comic strip Tales of the Green Beret.
Robin Moore currently lives with his British wife Helen, nee Kirkman, in Hopkinsville - Kentucky, home to Fort Campbell, where he is currently working on his memoirs. He has the Freedom of the City of Hopkinsville given to him by Mayor Richard Liebe.
[edit] References
From Robin Moore himself.
[edit] Bibliography
- The Devil To Pay (ISBN 1-879915-02-2)
- The Green Berets (ISBN 0-312-98492-8)
- The French Connection: A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy (ISBN 1-59228-044-7)
- The Happy Hooker: My Own Story (ISBN 0-06-001416-4)
- Mafia Wife (with Barbara Fuca) (ISBN 0-02-586180-8)
