Clay Blair Jr. was born on May 1, 1925 in Lexington, Virginia, USA. He was a writer, known for Überleben! (1976), Zurück vom River Kwai (1989) and Our Time in Hell: The Korean War (1997). He was married to Agnes Kemp Devereux and Joan Rutledge. He died on December 16, 1998 in Washington Island, Wisconsin, USA.