Alan Moorehead

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Alan McCrae Moorehead (born July 22, 1910 in Melbourne , Australia , † September 29, 1983 in London ) was a British journalist and non-fiction author. Moorehead was best known as a foreign correspondent for the Daily Express and as an author of widely read travel reports and biographies.

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Moorehead grew up in Australia. After attending Scotch College and Melbourne University , which he left with a BA degree, he moved to Great Britain in 1937.

In the following years, Moorehead hired himself as a foreign correspondent for the English daily newspaper Daily Express . In addition to his reports for the Express, Moorehead also published biographies, essays and travelogues that made him one of the most widely read British authors of his time. During the Second World War he gained international renown for his reports from various theaters of war in the Middle East, Asia, the Mediterranean and from northwestern Europe.

Moorehead was married. The marriage resulted in a son and daughter Caroline Moorehead . In 1966, Moorehead suffered a stroke. An operation that followed damaged his nervous system and made him unable to speak and write.

Moorehead donated his estate to the National Library of Australia while still alive in 1971 .

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  • Mediterranean Front , 1941.
  • A Year of Battle , 1943.
  • Eclipse , 1946.
  • Montgomery. A Biography , 1947. (Original: Montgomery. A Biography , 1946)
  • The End in Africa , 1943.
  • African Trilogy , 1945.
  • The Rage of the Vulture , (1948)
  • The Villa Diana (1951)
  • The traitors. The Double Life of Fuchs, Pontecorvo, and Nunn May , 1952.
  • Rum Jungle , 1953.
  • A Summer Night , 1954.
  • Gallipoli , 1956.
  • The Russian revolution , 1958.
  • No Room in The Ark , 1959.
  • The White Nile , 1960.
  • Churchill. A pictorial biography , 1961. (in the original: Churchill A Pictorial Biography. , 1960)
  • The Blue Nile , 1962.
  • * Cooper's Creek , 1963.
  • The Fatal Impact: An Account of the Invasion of the South Pacific, 1767-1840 , 1966.
  • Darwin and the Beagle , 1969.
  • A late education. Episodes in a Life , 1970.
  • Gallipoli , 1970.

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SURNAME Moorehead, Alan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moorehead, Alan McCrae (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Melbourne , Australia
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1983
Place of death London