Pat Frank

Pat Frank
Born
Harry Hart Frank Jr.

May 5, 1907
DiedOctober 12, 1964(1964-10-12) (aged 57)
Resting placeOaklawn Cemetery, Jacksonville, FL
OccupationJournalist and author
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Florida
Notable worksAlas, Babylon, Mr. Adam
ChildrenPerry Frank
Patrick Gene Frank

Harry Hart "Pat" Frank (May 5, 1907 – October 12, 1964) was an American newspaperman, writer, and government consultant. Perhaps the "first of the post-Hiroshima doomsday authors", his best known work is his post-apocalyptic novel Alas, Babylon (1959), which depicted the outbreak of a nuclear war and the struggles of its survivors in a small central Florida town.