Heinz, W. C. 1915-2008
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Name (Latin)
Heinz, W. C. 1915-2008
Other forms of name
Heinz, Wilfred Charles, 1915-2008
Date of birth
1915-01-11
Date of death
2008-02-27
Field of activity
Journalism
Sports journalism
Occupation
Authors
Journalists
Sportswriters
War correspondents
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Contemp. auth., new rev. ser., v. 4(Heinz, W(ilfred) C(harles); b. Jan. 11, 1915)
- LC manual auth. cd.(hdg.: Heinz, Wilfred Charles, 1915- ; tel. inform. fr. Morrow Co., Oct. 14, 1968: Richard Hooker is a joint pseud. of H.R. Hornberger and W.C. Heinz)
- NY times, via WWW, Mar. 1, 2008(obit. dated Feb. 28, 2008; W.C. Heinz, sports columnist, war correspondent, magazine writer and novelist; d. Wednesday [Feb. 27, 2008] in Bennington, Vt. at age 93; b. Wilfred Charles Heinz in Mount Vernon, N.Y.)
- Tel. call to W.C. Heinz, Nov. 19, 1991(Heinz confirms that "Richard Hooker" is a joint pseud. of Dr. H. Richard Hornerberger and himself)
- The great American sports page, 2019:page viii (W.C. Heinz (1915-2008))
- The professional, 1958.
- W. C. Heinz (January 11, 1915-February 27, 2008), born Wilfred Charles Heinz, was an American sportswriter, war correspondent, journalist, and author. Heinz was born in Mount Vernon, New York. Following his graduation from Middlebury College in 1937, he joined the staff of the New York Sun. After serving as one of the newspaper's war correspondents in Europe during the Second World War, Heinz returned to the United States and was awarded his own sports column called "The Sport Scene," which primarily covered boxing, baseball, football and horse racing. In the late 1960s, Heinz collaborated with H. Richard Hornberger to write the novel MASH, published under Hornberger's pen name Richard Hooker. The book was the precursor to the film MASH, which won the award for best film of the 1970 Cannes Film Festival and an Academy Award for best screenplay based on another medium in 1971. The book also served as the prototype for the long-running, Emmy Award-winning television series ( (Wikipedia web site, August 31, 2019:) )