Pat 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. Provided by Wikipedia