Lael values ​​baker

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Lael Tuckerwertebaker (born March 28, 1909 in Bradford , Pennsylvania , † March 24, 1997 in Keene , New Hampshire ) was an American journalist and author .

Life

Lael Louisiana Tucker was the daughter of Royal K. Tucker and Juliet Luttrell. She grew up in Mobile , Alabama . She finished her studies at the University of Louisville during the Great Depression without a degree. From 1929 to 1938 she worked as a secretary at the Theater Guild in New York City .

In 1938 she went to Time magazine as a journalist . From 1939 until the German declaration of war on the United States in November 1941, she was Time correspondent in Berlin . Your reporting had been described by the National Socialist Ministry of Propaganda as "dangerous". During this time, Tucker was married to the reporter Stephen Laird, who also worked in Berlin. In May 1941 she published a report in Life about the German resettlement from the German-Soviet border in Eydtkau , where the Propaganda Ministry had invited 23 foreign correspondents. Tucker then reported from London on the European theater of war.

In September 1942 she married the journalist Charleswertebaker , who was co-editor at Time and responsible for international reporting. After the war ended, both worked in Paris , where they befriended Ernest Hemingway and Irwin Shaw . In the early 1950s she gave up her job at Time . They now lived in Ciboure on the Biscaya , where their children Christianwertebaker and the later playwright Timberlakewertebaker grew up. Charleswertebaker died of cancer in 1955, she wrote the book Death of a Man , which was published in 1957, about the circumstances of death and the euthanasia she had requested during his suicide .

With Suzanne Gleaves she wrote several children's books in the early 1960s. In 1964 she wrote the novel The Eye of the Lion about the life of Mata Hari . In 1966 she moved to New Hampshire . In September 1970 she was married to the British actor Bramwell Fletcher for the third time , and both moved from New York to Keene in 1985, where he died in 1988 at the age of 84. Wertebacher published other novels and non-fiction books, such as To Mend the Heart , a book about medical advances in heart surgery , wrote scripts for radio and television documentaries, such as a CBS show about Kemal Ataturk , and magazine articles for Fortune , Life and US News and World Report .

The Keene State College in 1975 and the Franklin Pierce College in Rindge in 1982 awarded her an honorary doctorate.

euthanasia

Her strictly autobiographical book Death of a Man begins on an autumn day in 1954 when a doctor in the town of Saint-Jean-de-Luz in the south of France suspects Charles of colon cancer . The examination in New York reveals metastases in other organs, and the two make their last trip back together to see the children in Ciboure. Charles decides to commit suicide and expects his wife to help him.

For Laelwertebaker, the book was less about a conscientious description of the course of the disease and suicide attempts than about the posthumous appreciation of her husband's consistent attitude. With Death of a Man she initiated a discussion on the topics of suicide and euthanasia, which had been taboo until then in public. Wertebaker was also later heard on these topics.

Death of a Man in 1962 as a drama A Gift of Time by Garson Kanin on Broadway with the actors Henry Fonda and Olivia de Havilland released.

Works (selection)

  • Lament for four virgins; a novel . New York, Random House, 1952
  • Festival . New York, Random House, 1954
  • Lael Tuckerwertebaker: Death of a Man . New York: Random House 1957
    • A man's death . In Dt. trans. by Karin von Schab. Nannen, Hamburg 1957
    • Garson Kanin : A gift of time. A drama in two acts, adapted from Death of a man by Lael Tuckerwertebaker . Samuel French, New York 1962
  • Mister Junior . Paterson, NJ, Pageant Books, 1960 (via Joseph F. Cullman )
  • The eye of the lion; a novel based on the life of Mata Hari . Boston, Little, Brown 1964
  • The afternoon women . Boston, Little, Brown 1966
  • The world of Picasso . Time-Life Books, New York 1967
    • Picasso and his time . From d. Engl. Trans. by H. Onkie. Time-Life-International, Amsterdam 1972
  • Unbidden guests . Boston, Little, Brown 1970
  • The magic of light: the craft and career of Jean Rosenthal, pioneer in lighting for the modern stage . Little, Brown, Boston 1972 (via Jean Rosenthal )
  • Perilous voyage . Little, Brown, Boston 1975
  • The eye: window to the world . US News Books, Washington, DC 1981

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lael Tuckerwertebaker (Ed.): Reaching for Erato: poems of Leigh Royal Tucker . Englewood, Fla .: Legacy Press n.d. (between 1983 and 1993)
  2. ↑ a b Lael Tuckerwertebaker , at Alabama Authors
  3. ↑ a b c d e Enid Nemy: Laelwertebaker, 87, Author Who Wrote of Husband's Death , obituary in the New York Times , March 29, 1997
  4. ^ Lael Laird: "Welcome to Greater Germany" , in: Life, May 26, 1941, p. 14 ff.
  5. ^ Nancy Caldwell Sorel: The Women Who Wrote the War . New York: Arcade Publishing 1999, p. 127
  6. ↑ Death of a man . In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 1957 ( online ).
  7. ↑ Lael Wertenbaker: The right to die with dignity; a personal viewpoint. , New York, December 23, 1968, at WorldCat
personal data
SURNAME Wertbaker, Lael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wertebaker, Lael Tucker (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Bradford , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1997
Place of death Keene , New Hampshire