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词条 Alva Johnston
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  1. Biography

  2. Works

  3. See also

  4. References

  5. External links

Alva Johnston (August 1, 1888 – November 23, 1950) was an American journalist and biographer who won a Pulitzer Prize for journalism in 1923.[1]

Biography

Johnston was born in Sacramento, California.

He started out at the Sacramento Bee in 1906. From 1912 to 1928 he wrote for The New York Times, from 1928 to 1932 for the New York Herald Tribune, and then he wrote articles for The Saturday Evening Post and The New Yorker[1] magazines. He won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for Reporting for "his reports of the proceedings of the convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in December, 1922."[1][2][3]

He died on November 23, 1950 in Bronxville, New York.[4]

Works

  • The Great Goldwyn (Random House, 1937) — about Samuel Goldwyn
  • The Case of Erle Stanley Gardner (William Morrow, 1947) — originally publ. in The Saturday Evening Post
  • The Legendary Mizners (Farrar, Straus and Young, 1953), illustrated by Reginald Marsh — about Addison Mizner and Wilson Mizner

See also

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References

1. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/backissues/2010/03/eighty-five-from-the-archive-alva-johnston.html |title=Eighty-Five from the Archive: Alva Johnston |author=Erin Overbey |publisher=The New Yorker |date=March 4, 2010 |accessdate=April 21, 2011}}
2. ^"Reporting". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved November 8, 2013.
3. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,715608,00.html |title=The Press: The Best Reporter |work=TIME |date=May 28, 1923 |accessdate=April 21, 2011}}
4. ^{{cite news |author=Associated Press |coauthors= |title=Death Claims Alva Johnston |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=VjlUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bjoNAAAAIBAJ&pg=2824,1219433&dq=alva+johnston+dies&hl=en |newspaper=St. Joseph News-Press |date=November 24, 1950 |accessdate=October 22, 2012}}

External links

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