Howard Manton Layton's Archive

Website
http://
Email
howardlayton@sbcglobal.net

Profile

HOWARD MANTON LAYTON (Selective Biography).

Born November 23, 1918, Bristol, England. Immigrated to the USA 2/15/1955

Royal Air Force Navigator, Bomb-aimer, World War II. Sept. 3, 1939 through 1946.

1940-1944 Served in North Africa, with 203 and 223 fighter- bomber squadrons.

1945-1946 Signals Officer, Eastern Fighter Sector, Fighter Command.

Professional Qualifications: Chartered Electrical Engineer (UK), Fellow of the Institute
of Electrical Engineers (Brit). Former Vice Chairman of New England Branch of IEE.
Inventor: Hold sixteen US and foreign patents. Co-author of eight other patents.

1958 Founded INTERLAB INC., manufacturer of hi-tech processing equipment for semiconductor and optical industries. Current leader in USA in cleaning and hard-coating technology and equipment for ophthalmic lens processing.

Airplane pilot with commercial license and instrument rating. Owned Piper high-performance airplane (Saratoga) for ten years and flew it for a total of 1,000 hours on sales missions for my business. Hold current medical certificate (Expires Sept. 2008).

Former professional actor in England, earned living at it for five years. Member, British Actor's Equity. Played before, and was presented to, Queen Mary. Made film for the military: ‘Technique of Instruction’. Spent two months made-up as Robert Taylor, and played a considerable portion of his role in ‘The Conspirator’ because scheduling crisis back in California, left Taylor with insufficient time for anything except close-ups, and for scenes with Elizabeth Taylor. Taylor’s voice was dubbed onto my footage.
Graduate of American Academy of Dramatic Art.

Hobbies and other activities: Writing: Published technical articles in trade papers in England and USA. Work-out at the gym when business commitments permit.

Took course in California with Dan Poynter to learn a bit about publishing. To test the waters, wrote an experimental non-technical book ‘The Thirteen Club’ about the history of the manufacturing company I founded in 1958 (and still lead). Created my own publishing company (Three Spires Publishing). Produced the book in hard-cover with professionally created dust-jacket (Paul Perlow, NYC). Printed 2,000 copies. Sold them all myself (List price $24.95), through Ingram and New-England book-stores. Spent countless hours talking with patrons of WaldenBooks, Barnes & Noble and Borders, promoting my experimental book and learning which categories of readers would buy the books I would write in the future.
Enlisted in writer's school at Fairfield University, CT. Learned how to be more entertaining and make readers more eager to turn the page. That priceless instruction gave me the courage and confidence to write ‘Love and Sand.’

Posts