(1950), and The Typhoon's Eye (1959). The Foreigners concerns a group of white expatriates living in a city very much like Changsha. Schoyer told Edward Gulick, who had taught in Changsha with him, that the hero of The Foreigners, Peter Achilles, was a combination of himself and Gulick (an earlier Yale-in-China Bachelor, who served from 1913–1914, was named Paul Achilles). Achilles tells a friend: "I came out here for a year, just to see the world before I settled down; but I've stayed two and now I'm staying for another. And after that, perhaps I'll stay forever. China's fatal, isn't it? It's like a drug." "More than that," his friend replies, "It changes people. It hurts some and makes other magnificent." In addition to his novels, Schoyer worked as a correspondent for the Worldwide Press Service and a regular contributor to The Saturday Review, The New Yorker, The Reporter, and The New York Times Magazine. References Sources Flint, Peter B. "B. Preston Schoyer, 66, Novelist, And Author of Articles on China." New York Times, March 14, 1978. Marcus, Leonard S., Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moon, Beacon Press (Feb. 1992). 1911 births 1978 deaths 20th-century American novelists American male novelists American sinologists Yale College alumni United States Army Air Forces personnel of World War II Recipients of the Legion of Merit Recipients of the Soldier's Medal People from Riverside, Connecticut American male non-fiction writers United States Army Air Forces officers 20th-century American male writers