William Harlan Hale
Journalist, Author
1910 – 1974
Who was William Harlan Hale?
William Harlan Hale was an American writer and journalist, and editor.
Hale was born in New York City, the son of William Bayard and Olga Unger Hale. He attended Riverdale Country School. Hale was considered "one of Yale's brightest of bright young men" in his youth, and co-founded the campus magazine Harkness Hoot.
In 1931, he married Jean Laughlin Barker of Santa Fe; they had two daughters and a son. In religion he was a lifelong Episcopalian and in politics, a Democrat.
Hale was associate editor of Vanity Fair in 1932, a columnist for the Washington Post in 1933–1934, and editorial associate at Fortune from 1934 to 1936. His first book was Challenge to Defeat: Goethe's World and Spengler's Century. In 1938, he published a novel, titled Hannibal Hooker. He also wrote an adventure novel, A Yank in the RAF.
In an historical vein, Hale wrote a popular history of America, The March of Freedom and a biography of Horace Greeley, Horace Greeley, Voice of the People.
In World War II, Hale served in Army intelligence, and worked again for military intelligence from 1948 to 1949. He visited Buchenwald on April 12, 1945.
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- Born
- 1910
New York City - Also known as
- William Hale
- Profession
- Education
- Yale University
- Riverdale Country School
- Died
- Jul 1, 1974
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on July 23, 2013
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