Ted Morgan (Author)

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Ted Morgan (actually Charles Armand Gabriel, Comte de Gramont ; born March 30, 1932 in Geneva , Switzerland ) is a French - American author , biographer , journalist and historian .

Life

Ted Morgan was born Charles Armand Gabriel, Comte de Gramont in Geneva. His father, Gabriel Antoine Armand, Comte de Gramont (1908–1943), was a diplomat and hero of the Resistance . Gramont came from the noble family Gramont , one of the most distinguished French families of the old nobility.

After his father's untimely death on a training flight, Morgan began living two parallel lives. During his studies at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut , he worked as a reporter for the daily New Haven Register . In the late 1950s and early 1960s Morgan served in the French Army (lieutenant) and in the Algerian War of Independence he served as a propaganda officer. In 1961 he went back to the USA and worked at the New York Herald Tribune ; in the same year he won the Pulitzer Prize under his pseudonym "Sanche de Gramont" . In 1977 he became an American citizen and renounced his title of nobility. His name Ted Morgan is an anagram of "de Gramont" . In addition to his writing, he can also be seen on the CBS , one of the largest radio and television broadcasters in the United States, with a program 60 Minutes .

Literature (selection)

  • My Battle of Algiers (2005)
  • A Covert Life: Jay Lovestone, Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster (1999)
  • Reds: McCarthyism in Twentieth Century America (2003)
  • A Shovel of Stars: The Making of the American West 1800 to the Present (1996)
  • Wilderness at Dawn: The Settling of the North American Continent (1994)
  • An Uncertain Hour: The French, the Germans, the Jews, the Barbie Trial, and the City of Lyon, 1940-1945 (1990)
  • Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs (1990)
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt : A Biography (1985)
  • Winston Churchill : A Young Man in A Hurry (1982)
  • Maugham (1980)
  • On Becoming American (1978)
  • The Strong Brown God: The Story of the Niger River (1977), as Sanche de Gramont
  • Epitaph for kings (1969), as Sanche de Gramont
  • The French: Portrait of a people (1969), as Sanche de Gramont
  • The Secret War: The story of international espionage since 1945 (1962), as Sanche de Gramont

Awards

personal data
SURNAME Morgan, Ted
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gramont, Charles Armand Gabriel Comte de (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-American writer, journalist, and historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva , Switzerland