George T. Bye

In 1916, after a brief period in government service in Washington, D.C., Bye went to London as correspondent for The Kansas City Star and other papers.

In 1922 he accompanied Walter Hinton and Euclides Pinto Martins, aviators, on a "friendship flight" to Rio de Janeiro, published in newspapers at the time in the USA and Brazil and which became known as "Raid New York-Rio".

Bye's writers included Frank Buck, Eleanor Roosevelt, Charles A. Lindbergh, Alexander Woollcott, Rebecca West, Westbrook Pegler, John Erskine, Rose Wilder Lane, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Richard and Frances Lockridge (who wrote the Mr. and Mrs. North mystery novels), Alfred E. Smith, Franklin P. Adams, Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Heywood Broun, Deems Taylor, Donald C. Peattie and General of the Armies John J. Pershing.

Prodded by their mother, the children dictated their memoirs, which Bye sold as Around the World in Eleven Years.

[5] In 1954, Bye arranged the sale to Hollywood of Lindbergh's best-selling autobiography, The Spirit of St. Louis, for more than $1,000,000.

[6] But Bye was initially unenthusiastic about Laura Ingalls Wilder, commenting that the manuscript of her unpublished memoir, Pioneer Girl, lacked drama.