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William Frye
William Frye (January 9, 1908 - March 30, 1961) was an American ex-government official, war correspondent and published author. He had access to official files and unusual sources ...view moreWilliam Frye (January 9, 1908 - March 30, 1961) was an American ex-government official, war correspondent and published author. He had access to official files and unusual sources of information and used his wide knowledge of military affairs and political developments with telling effect.
He was born in 1908 in Montgomery, Alabama, to William Fenner and Hattie Belle (Booth) Frye. He graduated from the Alabama Military Institute in Anniston in 1925 and studied at the Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana (1928-1929).
Frye began his journalism career as a reporter for the Gadsden (Alabama) Times (1926-1927), the Birmingham News and Birmingham Post (1927), and the Nashville Tennessean (1930-1931). He joined the Associated Press in 1931, serving on various assignments in Washington between 1933-1942. He was in charge of coverage in the War Department (1942-1944), a war correspondent (1944-1945), and diplomatic correspondent in Paris in 1945. In the post-war years, he served as special consultant to the Secretary of War (1946) and the Secretary of Defense in (1947). He was also attaché to the American Embassy in London from 1950-1951.
He joined NBC in 1951 and became a special correspondent in Europe until 1953. He then served as assistant editor of the Army-Navy-Air Force Register, and military editor of Aero Digest (1954-1955). From 1955-1956, he served as deputy director of the department of mass communication at the United National Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in Paris, before taking up a position as director of information in their New York office between 1957-1958. Frye’s final appointment was as director of information with the National Council of Churches from 1959-1960.
He was married to Mary Atkinson and the couple had three children: Alice Rowena Frye (Madame Lucien Cohen), William Fenner and Henry Booth.
Frye died in 1961 at the age of 53.view less