E. N. J. Carter (the pen name for Earl Carter) was an American novelist and advertising copywriter.
Carter was born at
St. Vincent's Hospital in
Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village, or simply the Village, is a neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City, bounded by 14th Street (Manhattan), 14th Street to the north, Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway to the east, Houston Street to the s ...
. He was awarded the
Outstanding Civilian Service Medal in 2003 by the
U.S. Army
The United States Army (USA) is the primary land service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution.Article II, section 2, clause 1 of the United Stat ...
for creating the slogan, “
Be All You Can Be
BE or be may refer to:
Linguistics
* Be (Cyrillic), a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet
* ''be'' (interjection), in several languages
* Be languages or Ong Be, a pair of languages of northern Hainan province, China
* Belarusian language, ISO 639- ...
.” The award read in part, “Your slogan and creative advertising strategies were featured in song lyrics, television, and radio and print advertising for nearly two decades.” Carter's original concept sheet, with the words “Be All You Can Be,” is now part of a permanent collection at the
U.S. Army Heritage Center Foundation.
In 2005, Carter published his first novel
The Other President. Carter has several e-books on
Kindle, including The President Series,
Doo-Wop Dreams, and
The Persuasive Copywriter.
Carter has taught advertising at
The School of Visual Arts
The School of Visual Arts New York City (SVA NYC) is a private for-profit art school in New York City. It was founded in 1947 and is a member of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design.
History
This school was started by Sil ...
,
Pratt Institute
Pratt Institute is a private university with its main campus in Brooklyn, New York. It has an additional campus in Manhattan and an extension campus in Utica, New York at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute. The institute was founded in 18 ...
, and
Syracuse University
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.
References
[United States Army Recruiting Command]
"Former N.W. Ayer copywriter receives Army medal for ‘Be All You Can Be'"
, 20 December 2010. Retrieved 06 June 2015.
External links
The Other President
Earl Carter Awards
ENJ Carter Books
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21st-century American novelists
American copywriters
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American male novelists
21st-century American male writers