Donald Bain (writer)

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Donald Sutherland Bain (March 6, 1935 – October 21, 2017) was an American author and ghostwriter, having written over 115 books in his 40-year career.^[1][2]

Bain was a native of Mineola, New York and graduated from Purdue University in 1957 where he studied speech and drama.^[3] While there, he earned his pilot's license through the Air Force ROTC.^[4]

byline: Trudy Baker and Rachel Jones

• Coffee, Tea or Me? (1967)
• The Coffee Tea or Me Girls’ Round-the-World Diary (1970)
• The Coffee Tea or Me Girls Lay It on the Line (1972)
• The Coffee Tea or Me Girls Get Away From it All (1974)

byline: Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain

A spin-off book series based on the Murder, She Wrote American crime drama television series starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher.

• Tender Loving Care – byline: Joni Moura & Jackie Sutherland (1969)
• Girlpower – byline: Kathy Cole & Donna Bain (1971)
• How to Make a Good Airline Stewardess – byline: Cornelius Wohl & Bill Wenzel (1972)
• If It Moves, Kiss It – byline: Joni Moura & Jackie Sutherland (1973)
• We Gave at the Office – byline: Laura Mills & Pauline Burlick (1977)
• Fly Me - byline: Cornelius Wohl & Bill Wenzel (1974)
• Teachers Pet – byline: Janet McMillan & Mitzi Sims (1975)
• The Casting Couch and Me – byline: Joan Wood (1975)
• Wall Street & Broad – byline: Teri Palmer (1976)

byline: J.D. Hardin

• Bloody Sands
• The Spirit & the Flesh
• Death Flotilla
• The Lone Star Massacre
• Raider’s Revenge
• Raider’s Hell
• Apache Gold
• Bibles, Bullets & Brides
• Death Lode

• The Airport Affair (1975) – byline: David Toma & Jack Pearl
• The Affair of the Unhappy Hooker (1976) – byline: David Toma & Jack Pearl
• Sado Cop (1976) – byline: Nick Vasile
• A Member of the Family (1993) – byline: Nick Vasile
• Raven (1987) – byline: Mike Lundy
• Baby Farm (1987) – byline: Mike Lundy
• Daughter of the Sand (1978) – byline: Pamela South
• The Eagle & the Serpent (1982) – byline: Lee Jackson
• Texas Lily (1987) – byline: Stephanie Blake

• Murder HE Wrote: A Successful Writer's Life (2006) (Autobiography)

• The Racing Flag (1965) – byline: Bloys Britt & Bill France
• Veronica (1969) – byline: Veronica Lake (her autobiography, whose ghostwriter he was)
• The Case Against Private Aviation (1969) – byline: Donald Bain
• Long John Nebel (1974) – byline: Donald Bain
• The Control of Candy Jones (1976) – byline: Donald Bain
• Club Tropique (1978) – byline: Donald Bain
• War in Illinois (1978) – byline: Donald Bain
• Charlie & the Shawneetown Dame (2004) – byline: Donald Bain
• Caviar, Caviar, Caviar (1981) – byline: Gerald M. Stein & Donald Bain
• The "Girls" in the Newsroom (1983) – byline: Marjorie Margolies
• The World’s Best Bartenders’ Guide (1998)– byline: Joseph Scott & Donald Bain
• Margaret Truman's Experiment in Murder (2012)
• Margaret Truman's Undiplomatic Murder (2014)
• Margaret Truman's Internship In Murder (2015)
• Margaret Truman's Deadly Medicine (2016)
• Margaret Truman's Allied in Danger (2017)

A ghostwriter is often required to be anonymous as a part of the contract to write the book. Some sources claim Bain is the author of most of the mystery novels attributed to Margaret Truman. While Bain initially denied this,^[5] he wrote a column in the March 14, 2014 issue of Publishers Weekly and finally acknowledged writing "27 novels in the Margaret Truman Capital Crimes series (mostly bylined by Truman, my close collaborator – my name is on only the most recent entries, released after her death)."^[6]

Bain died of congestive heart failure on October 21, 2017, in White Plains, New York at the age of 82.^[1]

• United States novelists
• American literature

• Donald Bain on New American Library