Asa Baber
American writer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Asa Baber was an American author, Marine Corps Captain, and columnist for Playboy magazine. Growing up on the South Side of Chicago, Baber was involved in several incidents of petty mischief before his grandmother arranged for him to attend the Lawrenceville Academy, a prestigious boarding school in New Jersey. Baber went on to Princeton University where he joined the United States Marine Corps Platoon Leaders Class. After graduation in 1958, he was commissioned as an officer in the Marine Corps and served until 1961, achieving the rank of Captain. He participated in several covert actions in Laos. His military experience became material for several essays and, finally, his first book, Land of a Million Elephants, published in 1971, and serialized in Playboy. Baber performed his graduate work at Northwestern University and the University of Iowa's Writer's Workshop.
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