Journalist, Author. Best known for his co-penning of the political thriller “Seven Days in May” (1962), which became a 1964 motion picture adaptation starring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas. Born Charles Waldo Bailey, II, the native of New England was born into a diversely talented family, his father was a university administrator, his mother a musician. He followed his father’s career path (a former writer with a Boston publication) into journalism and after graduation from Harvard University, he landed a position with The Minneapolis Tribune, eventually becoming a Washington correspondent and editor of the paper. Bailey initiated a fruitful collaboration with Fletcher Knebel which yielded the works “No High Ground” (1960), the cold-war inspired bestseller “Seven Days in May” and “Convention” (1964). He went onto serve as Washington editor for National Public Radio (1984 to 1987). He died of complications from Parkinson’s disease. (bio by: C.S.)