Author: Curt Gentry
Curt Gentry was an American writer. He served in the Air Force during the Korean War, mostly as a writer on the Pacific Stars and Stripes newspaper in Tokyo.
He is best known for co-writing the book Helter Skelter with Vincent Bugliosi (1974), which detailed the Charles Manson murders. Frame-Up was a nominee for the 1968 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Fact Crime book.
Helter Skelter won a 1975 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Fact Crime book.
J.Edgar Hoover won the 1992 PEN Center West Literary Award for Non-Fiction.
Gentry lived in San Francisco, California. He was 83 at the time of his death.
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