Knickerbocker, H. R. 1898-1949
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Name (Hebrew)
ניקרבוקר, הוברט רנפרו
Name (Latin)
Knickerbocker, H. R. 1898-1949
Other forms of name
Knickerbocker, Red, 1898-1949
nna Knickerbocker, Hubert Renfro, 1898-1949
קניקערבאקער, הוברט רנפרו
Date of birth
1898-01-31
Date of death
1949-07-12
Occupation
Authors
Journalists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
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MARC
Sources of Information
- Wikipedia, September 24, 2020(Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker; Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker (January 31, 1898 - July 12, 1949) was an American journalist and author; he was nicknamed "Red" from the color of his hair; he was born in Yoakum, Texas, graduated from the Southwestern University in Texas, and studied psychiatry at Columbia University; he was noted for reporting on German politics before and during World War II; in 1931, as a correspondent for the New York Evening Post and the Philadelphia Public Ledger, he won the Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles on the practical operation of the Five Year Plan in Russia; after World War II, Knickerbocker went to work for radio station WOR, in Newark, New Jersey; he was on assignment with a team of journalists touring Southeast Asia when they were all killed in a plane crash near Bombay, India, on July 12, 1949)
- His The red trade menace ... 1931.
- Danger forward, 1980, c1947:t.p. (H. R. Knickerbocker)