fiction.wikisort.org - WriterIra Wolfert (November 1, 1908 – November 24, 1997) was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent and a fiction and non-fiction writer.
American novelist
Ira Wolfert |
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Born | (1908-11-01)November 1, 1908 New York City, New York, U.S. |
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Died | November 24, 1997(1997-11-24) (aged 89) Margaretville, New York, U.S. |
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Occupation | Novelist |
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Nationality | American |
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Alma mater | Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism |
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Early life and education
Wolfert was born in New York City, New York.[1]
In 1930, he graduated from the Columbia University School of Journalism with a bachelor's degree.[1]
Career
Wolfert was a correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance from the 1930s through World War II. In 1941, he was aboard the Surcouf when it helped to liberate Saint Pierre and Miquelon. His series of articles about the November 1942 Naval Battle of Guadalcanal won him the Pulitzer Prize for Telegraphic Reporting (International).[1][2][3]
In 1944, Wolfert co-wrote One-Man Air Force with Captain Don Gentile, a leading fighter ace. The book is an autobiography of Gentile and details his exploits as a fighter pilot flying P-51 Mustangs with the Eighth Air Force.
His first novel, Tucker's People about a vicious New York gangster, published in 1943, was well received by both critics and the general public.[1][3] Wolfert co-wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation, Force of Evil, released in 1948. That same year, he had another success with the novel An Act of Love. He also wrote non-fiction, including the 1943 bestselling eyewitness account Battle for the Solomons and the 1945 American Guerrilla in the Philippines, which recounts the exploits of Navy officer Iliff David Richardson and was made into a 1950 film of the same name, starring Tyrone Power as Richardson. After the war, he continued to write, mainly articles for Reader's Digest.
The House Un-American Activities Committee considered the leftist Wolfert a communist by association.[4]
Personal life
In 1928, Wolfert married Helen Herschdorfer, a poet. They had two children, Ruth and Michael.
Their marriage lasted 57 years, until Helen died in 1985.[1]
On November 24, 1997, Wolfert died in Margaretville, New York at the age of 89.[1]
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Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting |
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As Pulitzer Prize for Telegraphic Reporting - International (1942–1947) |
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1942–1947 |
- Laurence Edmund Allen (1942)
- Ira Wolfert (1943)
- Daniel De Luce (1944)
- Mark S. Watson (1945)
- Homer Bigart (1946)
- Eddy Gilmore (1947)
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As Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (1948–present) |
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1948–1949 |
- Paul W. Ward (1948)
- Price Day (1949)
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1950–1959 |
- Edmund Stevens (1950)
- Keyes Beech (1951 shared)
- Homer Bigart (1951 shared)
- Marguerite Higgins (1951 shared)
- Relman Morin (1951 shared)
- Fred Sparks (1951 shared)
- Don Whitehead (1951 shared)
- John M. Hightower (1952)
- Austin Wehrwein (1953)
- Jim G. Lucas (1954)
- Harrison E. Salisbury (1955)
- William Randolph Hearst Jr. (1956 shared)
- J. Kingsbury-Smith (1956 shared)
- Frank Conniff (1956 shared)
- Russell Jones (1957)
- Staff of The New York Times (1958)
- Joseph Martin (1959 shared)
- Philip Santora (1959 shared)
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1960–1969 |
- A. M. Rosenthal (1960)
- Lynn Heinzerling (1961)
- Walter Lippmann (1962)
- Hal Hendrix (1963)
- Malcolm W. Browne (1964 shared)
- David Halberstam (1964 shared)
- J. A. Livingston (1965)
- Peter Arnett (1966)
- R. John Hughes (1967)
- Alfred Friendly (1968)
- William Tuohy (1969)
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1970–1979 |
- Seymour M. Hersh (1970)
- Jimmie Lee Hoagland (1971)
- Peter R. Kann (1972)
- Max Frankel (1973)
- Hedrick Smith (1974)
- William Mullen (1975 shared)
- Ovie Carter (1975 shared)
- Sydney H. Schanberg (1976)
- Henry Kamm (1978)
- Richard Ben Cramer (1979)
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1980–1989 |
- Joel Brinkley (1980 shared)
- Jay Mather (1980 shared)
- Shirley Christian (1981)
- John Darnton (1982)
- Thomas L. Friedman (1983 shared)
- Loren Jenkins (1983 shared)
- Karen Elliott House (1984 shared)
- Joshua Friedman (1985 shared)
- Dennis Bell (1985 shared)
- Ozier Muhammad (1985 shared)
- Lewis M. Simons (1986 shared)
- Pete Carey (1986 shared)
- Katherine Ellison (1986 shared)
- Michael Parks (1987)
- Thomas L. Friedman (1988)
- Bill Keller (1989 shared)
- Glenn Frankel (1989 shared)
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1990–1999 |
- Nicholas D. Kristof (1990 shared)
- Sheryl WuDunn (1990 shared)
- Caryle Murphy (1991 shared)
- Serge Schmemann (1991 shared)
- Patrick J. Sloyan (1992)
- John F. Burns (1993 shared)
- Roy Gutman (1993 shared)
- Staff of The Dallas Morning News (1994)
- Mark Fritz (1995)
- David Rohde (1996)
- John F. Burns (1997)
- Staff of The New York Times (1998)
- Staff of The Wall Street Journal (1999)
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2000–2009 |
- Mark Schoofs (2000)
- Ian Denis Johnson (2001 shared)
- Paul Salopek (2001 shared)
- Barry Bearak (2002)
- Kevin Sullivan (2003 shared)
- Mary Jordan (2003 shared)
- Anthony Shadid (2004)
- Kim Murphy (2005 shared)
- Dele Olojede (2005 shared)
- Joseph Kahn (2006 shared)
- Jim Yardley (2006 shared)
- Staff of The Wall Street Journal (2007)
- Steve Fainaru (2008)
- Staff of The New York Times (2009)
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2010–2020 |
- Anthony Shadid (2010)
- Clifford J. Levy (2011 shared)
- Ellen Barry (2011 shared)
- Jeffrey Gettleman (2012)
- David Barboza (2013)
- Jason Szep (2014 shared)
- Andrew R. C. Marshall (2014 shared)
- Staff of The New York Times (2015)
- Alissa J. Rubin (2016)
- Staff of The New York Times (2017)
- Clare Baldwin (2018 shared)
- Andrew R.C. Marshall (2018 shared)
- Manuel Mogato (2018 shared)
- Maggie Michael, Maad al-Zikry and Nariman El-Mofty, Staff of Reuters, with notable contributions from Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo (2019)
- Staff of The New York Times (2020)
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