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Jr. Cyrus Townsend Brady
1887–1969
Known today mainly as the son and collaborator of adventure writer Cyrus Townsend Brady, he is remembered for co-authoring the engineering novel Web of Steel. The surviving public record on him is quite slim, which gives his work an unusual air of mystery.
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Web of steel
by Cyrus Townsend Brady, Jr. Cyrus Townsend Brady
About the author
Cyrus Townsend Brady Jr. was born on June 23, 1887, in Omaha, Nebraska, and died on December 15, 1969, in New York City. Public records located during research identify him as the son of the writer and clergyman Cyrus Townsend Brady.
He is most clearly documented in book history as the junior co-author of Web of Steel, a novel published with his father and now available through Project Gutenberg. A Wikidata entry also describes him as an American civil engineer and photographer, though detailed biographical accounts are scarce.
Because so little easily verifiable material survives online, the outline of his life remains fragmentary. What does stand out is his link to early 20th-century popular fiction and to a family already well known in American literary circles.