married Mary B. Wolferth in 1946, and they divorced in 1959. His second wife, the former Katharine J. B. Wood, was a former fashion editor of Edinburgh's The Scotsman. He had two children with Katharine and two children with Mary. His children with Katharine are named Alexander and Victoria and his children with Mary are Margaret and Michael. In 1977, he moved to a farm outside Esmont, Virginia, and turned to writing suspense novels, including Men in Arms (1983). He died of cancer in 1991 in Esmont. Books Among those he wrote: Out Of the Blue (1952) With Love And Loathing (1963) Never Let Her Go (1970) Contract On the President (1973) Affair Of Strangers (1975) Nightfall (1976) The Company Of Friends (1977) Snake (1977 Dear Judgment (1979) Party Of the Year (1980) Penelope Now (1981) Men In Arms (1983) Take No Prisoners - an Horatio Cassidy Adventure (1985) The Family Worth (1987) Party Of the Year With Excerpts From the Legend Of the Di Castigliones Annotated References External links American Experience John Crosby on Betty White 1912 births 1991 deaths Writers from Milwaukee Military personnel from Wisconsin Phillips Exeter Academy alumni Yale University alumni American television critics Radio critics 20th-century American non-fiction writers 20th-century American novelists