Edwin Palmer Hoyt

Edwin Palmer Hoyt was a journalist who worked in both print and television media. He wrote twenty novels, some under the pseudonyms Christopher Martin and Cabot L. Forbes, and biographies and nonfiction books on major military conflicts. His total books number in the hundreds.

Hoyt served in the U.S. Army in WWI, and came to DC in 1943, to work for the Office of War Information during WWII. He was a foreign correspondent for The Denver Post and the United Press, traveling throughout Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and Europe to report on location. Other print journalism jobs include editing the Colorado Springs Free Press and Collier’s Weekly, and working as assistant publisher of American Heritage Magazine. He also was a broadcaster for ABC television. He was awarded the John Peter Zenger Freedom of the Press Award in 1954.

Hoyt became a full-time writer in 1958. Some of his book titles include: Jumbos and Jackasses: A Popular History of the Political Wars (1960), The House of Morgan (1966), The Amistad Affair (1970), Blue Skies and Blood: The Battle of the Coral Sea (1975), The Invasion Before Normandy (1985), Japan’s War: The Great Pacific Conflict (1986), and 199 Days (1993).