Tryon, Thomas (1926–1999)

US actor and writer. Under the name Tom Tryon, he was an actor 1952–71 on Broadway and television, as well as in Hollywood films. He gave up on acting to become a successful novelist. He wrote compelling horror fiction, as in The Other (1971), and Harvest Home (1973), before writing novels set in Hollywood, such as All That Glitters: Five Novellas (1986).

Tryon was born in Hartford, Connecticut. He studied at Yale (BA 1949), and in New York City at the Art Students League and the Neighborhood Playhouse. For most of his career he lived in New York City.