Robert Buckner

Robert Buckner (May 28, 1906 – August 18, 1989) was an American film screenwriter, producer and short story writer. Buckner studied at the University of Virginia and the University of Edinburgh. He began his professional writing career at age 20, as London correspondent for the New York World.

He wrote a play An Affair of the State; the novels Sigrid and Sergeant (1959), Tiger By the Tail (1960) and Starfire (1960); and the short story "The Man Who Won the War" (1936).