Russell Owen

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Russell D. Owen (born January 8, 1889 in Chicago , Illinois , † April 3, 1952 ) was an American journalist for the New York Times and Pulitzer Prize winner .

Life

In 1904 he worked as a stenographer . From 1906 to 1920 he then worked for the New York Sun on a Linotype typesetting machine and as a reporter. This was followed by brief positions as a reporter in Canandaigua (New York) and with the Syracuse Herald . In 1921 he became an employee of the New York Times before he accepted a position as chief of the news bureau of the General Electric Company in 1924. In 1926 he moved back to the New York Times , where he worked as a reporter for many years.

In 1926 he took part in Roald Amundsen's Spitzbergen expedition (see Norge ) and reported for the New York Times on the race to the North Pole . There he also met Richard Evelyn Byrd .

From 1928 to 1930, Owen accompanied Richard Byrd's first Antarctic expedition . He radioed numerous reports back home, where they appeared on the front page of the New York Times and other newspapers. In 1930 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Reporting for his reporting from the Antarctic . In 1934 he published the book South of the Sun , in which Owen writes about the expedition. Two more books on Antarctica, Antarctic Ocean and The Conquest of the North and South Poles followed .

In 1913 he married Ethel. J. McGregor, who died in 1948. They had a child together, Jean. Owen died in 1952 at the age of 63.

Works

  • South of the Sun (1934)
  • Antarctic Ocean (1941)
  • The Conquest of the North and South Poles , German: Storming the Poles (1952)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Elizabeth A. Brennan, Elizabeth C. Clarage: Who's who of Pulitzer Prize winners . Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999, ISBN 1-57356-111-8 .
  2. ^ Eugene Rodgers: Beyond the Barrier: The Story of Byrd's first Expedition to Antarctica . Naval Institute Press, 1990, ISBN 0-87021-022-X , pp. 72 .
  3. ^ Pulitzer.org: The Pulitzer Prizes - Reporting . Retrieved September 12, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Owen, Russell
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Owen, Russell D.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois, United States
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1952