“A. B. MacDonald”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

词条

A. B. MacDonald

释义

Biography
References

Alexander Black MacDonald (May 6, 1871 — April 9, 1942) was a journalist for the Kansas City Star who won a Pulitzer Prize for Reporting in 1931 for "his work in connection with a murder in Amarillo, Texas."^[1] On that assignment, he "solved a murder mystery . . . and brought a guilty man to justice."^[2]

Biography

Macdonald was born in New Brunswick, Canada, the son of Alexander Black Macdonald and Jemima McDonald.^[3] He later described his father:

"The greatest man I ever knew … was a preacher in a little Canadian village. He preached in three villages, riding on circuit, helping people. He did that for sixty years and died possessing a black broadcloth suit and $125. A great man and a great life."^[4]

Macdonald emigrated to the United States in 1890, and became naturalized as a citizen in 1896.^[5] He quickly established himself as reporter, working first for the Kansas City Times (1891-1893), then the Kansas City World (1893), and the Kansas City Star (1894-1920). He took a leave from newspaper reporting to serve on the staff of Country Gentleman and Ladies’ Home Journal (1920-1928), but returned to the Kansas City Star in 1928, and continued there until his death.^[5]

Earlier, he had been sent to Oklahoma to cover the chase of Henry Starr, "a bandit who rode safely through a surrounding posse because his sweetheart was on the horse with him and the possemen were too gallant to shoot."^[2]^[6]

After he was assigned to interview evangelist Billy Sunday, he took a leave from the Star to go to New York to work as Sunday's publicity agent.^[2]

References

1. ^{{cite web|title=A. B. MacDonald of Kansas City (MO) Star |url=http://www.pulitzer.org/winners/b-macdonald|work=The Pulitzer Prizes|accessdate=25 February 2011}}
2. ^¹²Lee Shippey, Luckiest Man Alive, Los Angeles, Westernlore Press (1959), page 36
3. ^'Who’s Who in America', vol. 19 (1936-1937), p. 1555
4. ^William Futhey Gibbons, Making Today’s Newspaper: A Method for Gathering, Writing, and Publishing News (Ann Arbor: Edwards Brothers, 1933), p. 81.
5. ^¹Who’s Who in America, vol. 19 (1936-1937), p. 1555
6. ^{{cite news|author= |title=The Kansas City Star has won seven Pulitzer Prizes and a special citation during its 125-year history |year= |newspaper=Kansas City Star |page= |quote= | url=http://www.kansascity.com/latest-news/article295419/Pulitzer-prizes.html |isbn= }}

5 : 1942 deaths|1871 births|American male journalists|American journalists|Writers from Kansas City, Missouri

随便看

开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识，基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识，是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。