Leonard Mosley

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Leonard Mosley
Born11 February 1913
Manchester, England, UK
DiedJune 1992
Occupation(s)Journalist, biographer

Leonard Oswald Mosley

Allen Welsh Dulles, John Foster Dulles and Darryl F. Zanuck. He also worked as chief war correspondent for London's The Sunday Times
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Biography

Leonard Oswald Mosley was born in Manchester, England on 11 February 1913, the son of Leonard Cyril Mosley and Annie Althea Mosley née Glaiser.[2] He was educated at William Hulme's Grammar School.[3] At the age of seventeen he started work as a reporter for the Telegraph, a weekly paper, since defunct, which circulated in South Lancashire and North Cheshire. After a year working there he lost his job as a result of an ill-timed practical joke, and then spent six months as a freelance, living in his parental home in Didsbury.[4] During the summer of 1931 he left England and made his way to America.[5]

In New York he spent three months as an Assistant Stage Manager for a burlesque show, then for half a year worked as a journalist for the New York Daily Mirror.[6] In May 1932 he left the East Coast and drove to California in an old Ford Model T.[7] He arrived in Los Angeles just in time for the 1932 Summer Olympics, which he covered as an employee of United Press. He subsequently worked as a freelance journalist in Hollywood. He reported on the 1933 Long Beach earthquake, returning to England shortly afterwards.[8]

He found employment as a roving reporter, a job that took him all over the world. One early assignment which brought him back to the United States and made a great impression on him was the trial of Richard Hauptmann for the Lindbergh kidnapping.[9] Many years later he would write a biography of Lindbergh.

Books

Honours

References

  1. ^ "Leonard Mosley". BFI. Archived from the original on 22 October 2012. Retrieved 29 November 2010.
  2. ^ myheritage.com
  3. ^ "Literary Luncheon Featuring Three Prominent Authors". Sarasota Herald Tribune. 7 February 1982.
  4. ^ So Far So Good chapter 3
  5. ^ So Far So Good chapters 1, 2
  6. ^ So Far So Good chapter 4
  7. ^ So Far So Good chapter 5
  8. ^ So Far So Good chapter 6
  9. ^ So Far So Good chapter 7
  10. ^ London Gazette 2nd supplement 21 June 1946
  11. ^ London Gazette 26 June 1964

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