a Dutch weekly, 1947-50, he was invited to run a cultural program on Radio Jakarta, Indonesia which he did from 1950 to 1951. It was after this that he came by freighter to the United States. His first novel, The Affair, was published in 1958. He also began writing non-fiction, including several travel books, including Love and Hate in China (1966).

During the Vietnam War he turned his attention to protest, helping to found the still-active 'RESIST'