Edward Y. Breese (1912-1979) was a popular fiction writer, under the names Brett Halliday, Zane Grey, , Edward Buller or Y.B. Edward was born in 1912 in Trenton, New Jersey. He graduated from Princeton University in 1934. Later he was an aerial gunner in World War II. After his return from the war he worked at a variety of jobs in Florida and Georgia. He died at the age of 67 in Miami, Florida.