Nelson Gidding

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Emerging from a New York City background and educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard, he entered the Army Air Forces as a navigator during World War II, survived a crash over Italy, endured 18 months as a POW, and later escaped; the experience yielded his sole novel, End Over End, published in 1946. Transitioning to Hollywood, he first wrote for television series such as Suspense and Se…