Alexander Gault MacGowan
Alexander Gault MacGowan | |
|---|---|
Francois Darlan (l). | |
| Born | 7 February 1894 Manchester, England |
| Died | 30 November 1970 (aged 76) Heidelberg, Germany |
| Resting place | Heidelberg, Germany |
| Occupation | Journalist, war correspondent |
| Language | English |
Alexander Gault MacGowan (7 February 1894 – 30 November 1970) was a leading
New York World-Telegram and Sun. He rose from correspondent to become managing editor of The Sun's European Bureau after the war.[4]
Before the war, MacGowan won a Selfridge Award in 1932 for an article about Devil's Island in The Times.[5] Later, he covered the coronations of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II, the Spanish Civil War, and spent time in Morocco with the French Foreign Legion (1937).[6] During World War II, MacGowan continued writing for The Sun, covering the
Buchenwald and Dachau
death camps.
After the war, MacGowan worked as European Bureau chief of The Sun until the newspaper was sold to the
Scripps-Howard chain and absorbed into the New York World-Telegram in January 1950. The World-Telegram and Sun dropped all nonunion Sun employees after a strike that began in January 1950, among them MacGowan.[10] He then became a European correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance, also starting a venture of his own with the production of a series of small guidebooks for tourists, such as "Heidelberg Confidential," and "Switzerland Confidential." In 1956 he began to devote all his efforts to writing and publishing the travel newspaper, European Life, first in Munich, then after 1963 in Heidelberg.[11]
MacGowan died on 30 November 1970, at his home in Heidelberg, as a result of complications from osteoporosis.[12]
References
- ^ The Sun, New York, 15 August 1944
- ^ The London Gazette, 20 July 1923
- ISBN 0-394-53777-7.
- ^ Marquis Who's Who entry for MacGowan
- ^ Time, 15 August 1932
- ^ Marquis Who's Who entry for MacGowan
- ISBN 978-0-8032-8777-8.
- ^ Blue Book, November 1944
- ^ The New York Times, 15 August 1944
- ^ New York Times, 7 January 1950
- ^ Marquis Who's Who entry for MacGowan
- ^ The Times (London), 5 December 1970