William Clark Brinkley was an American writer and journalist, best known for his novels Don't Go Near the Water, which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer adapted to an eponymous film, and The Last Ship, which TNT adapted as a television series.
William Clark Brinkley (Septem – Novem) was an American writer and journalist, best known for his novels Don't Go Near the Water ().!
William Brinkley (1917-1993) was born in Custer City, Oklahoma. Brinkley graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1940 after which he worked for a couple years as a reporter for the Washington Post before becoming a commissioned officer in the US Navy, a position in which he dealt mostly with public relations. After the war, Brinkley published his debut novel, Quicksand (1948) before going back to work at the Washington Post. In 1951, Brinkley started working at Life Magazine, a position he retained until 1958. In 1955 he published his only non-fiction work, a biography of a Slovakian nun titled The Deliverance of Sister Cecelia.