Charles W. Bailey, American journalist and novelist (Seven Days in May), died from Parkinson's disease he was 81.

Charles Waldo Bailey II was an American journalist, newspaper editor and novelist  died from Parkinson's disease he was 81..

(April 28, 1929 – January 3, 2012) 

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he graduated from Harvard University, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1950. He then worked for the Minneapolis Tribune, published in Minneapolis, Minnesota, serving as its editor from 1972 to 1982.^[1] Bailey co-wrote, with Fletcher Knebel, the best-selling political thriller novel Seven Days in May (1962). He died in Englewood, New Jersey.^[2][3]

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