He also published two children’s books and two non-fiction works: one about environmental disaster, and an authorised biography of Dorothy Schiff.
During World War II he joined the American Field Service, where he was attached to the British Indian Army, as an ambulance driver and medic in the Burma Campaign.
[1] Potter's first biography, Men, Money & Magic: The Story of Dorothy Schiff was published by Coward, McCann & Geoghegan in 1976.
Much of the book is devoted to Schiff's relationships with her husbands and male friends, including President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Ed Harris would later say that his interest in portraying Pollock was inspired by Potter's book, which he had received as birthday gift from his father.