Berry, Don, 1932-2001

Don Berry (1932–2001) was an English-language writer whose background, including his life and nationality, is sparsely documented in publicly available sources. The library currently holds two of his works, Sound of Terror and Routine for a Hornet. Judging from the titles and the appearance of these works, his writing seems to involve popular narrative of the suspense and thriller kind, with a tendency to build stories around a specific situation or object; the length and structure suggest tightly plotted genre fiction with a brisk pace. Because verifiable biographical material is limited, a fuller assessment of his oeuvre, influences, and literary standing is difficult; this introduction relies only on the library's catalog records and title information, highlighting the thematic clues and identifiable stylistic orientation of his surviving works for readers to pursue further reading and research.