He pioneered scripting documentaries and educational/instructional movies using dramatic techniques, rather than the previously common talking heads. He joined the staff of the successful Professional Writing Program of the University of Oklahoma, training writers of commercial fiction and movies. During the 1960s, he scripted a motion picture, Stark Fear, featuring Keith Toby and Beverly Garland.
He published several more novels, including The Horde From Infinity, vended as another Ace Double with The Day The Earth Froze by Gerald Hatch. His first published book was The Transposed Man (1955), which appeared as Ace Double D-113, bound dos-à-dos with J.T.
He contributed stories of the genres of science fiction, mystery, Western, and action adventure to a variety of magazines of the pulp variety. His first published story was "Henry Horn's Super Solvent", which appeared in Fantastic Adventures in 1941. Swain was a member of the Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame. Swain's novella "Drummers of Daugavo" was the cover story for the March 1943 issue of Fantastic Adventures, illustrated by Robert Gibson Jones.ĭwight Vreeland Swain (Novem– February 24, 1992), born in Rochester, Michigan, was an American author, screenwriter and teacher.
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