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Donald G. Payne

English author (1924–2018)

Not to be confused with Don Payne (writer).

Donald G. Payne

BornDonald Gordon Payne
(1924-01-03)3 January 1924
London, Greater London, England
Died22 August 2018(2018-08-22) (aged 94)
Redhill, Surrey, England
Pen nameJames Vance Marshall
Ian Cameron
Donald Gordon
NationalityBritish
Genremaritime history,
military history,
maritime fiction,
military fiction,
science fiction,
adventure,
lost world
SubjectWorld War II

Donald Gordon Payne (3 January 1924 – 22 August 2018[1]) was an English author, most famous for his 1959 novel, Walkabout. Payne was made a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1962.

Biography

Donald Gordon Payne was born in Denmark Hill in southeast London. His father, Francis Payne, was from New Zealand and had served with the ANZACs in World War I, and his mother was Evelyn Rodgers, who had served as a nurse in World War I. As a child he travelled with his parents to New Zealand and Australia. He went to school at Dulwich College Prepar

Don Payne (writer)

American writer and film producer

This article is about the American writer. For the British writer, see Donald G. Payne.

William Donald Payne (May 5, 1964 – March 26, 2013) was an American writer and producer. He wrote several episodes of The Simpsons after 2000, many of these with John Frink, whom he met while studying at the University of California, Los Angeles. The duo began their careers writing for the short-lived sitcom Hope and Gloria. Payne later moved into writing feature films, including My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006), and co-wrote Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007), Thor (2011) and its sequel Thor: The Dark World (2013). Payne died from heart failure caused by bone cancer in March 2013.

Early life

Payne was born William Donald Payne on May 5, 1964 in Wilmington, North Carolina.[1][2][3] He attended New Hanover High School, graduating in 1982; he had been class president.[4] He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,[4] then transferred to a

Donald G. Payne

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