Myrick Land (1922-1998) was a journalism professor, freelance writer, and author who wrote or collaborated on more than a dozen books. Many of these collaborations were with his wife, Barbara, a former New York Times and Miami Herald reporter. He also wrote hundreds of articles for national magazines in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s.
Land was born in Louisiana. He served in the Army Air Corps during World War II, then graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1945. He received a master's degree from Columbia University in 1946.
During the 1960s and early 1970s, Land was senior editor and assistant managing editor of Look Magazine in New York. In 1976, he became an assistant journalism professor at the University of Nevada, Reno where he taught until 1979. Myrick and Barbara were named to the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame in 1996.
