Bonsal, Stephen, 1865-1951

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Dates:
Birth 1865-03-29
Death 1951-06-08

Biographical notes:

Journalist and foreign correspondent.

From the description of Papers of Stephen Bonsal, 1890-1973 (bulk 1900-1947). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79448894

Biographical Note

1865, Mar. 29 Born, Baltimore, Md. circa 1878 1882 Student, St. Paul's School, Concord, N.H. 1882 circa 1883 Auditor at Heidelberg and Vienna universities, Heidelberg, Germany, and Vienna, Austria, earning certificates in German and Italian literature 1885 1900 Special correspondent for New York Herald in Bulgarian-Serbian War (1885), Morocco (1889), Macedonian uprising (1890), Sino-Japanese War (1895), and Cuba and the Spanish-American War (1897-1900) 1893 1897 Secretary of legation and chargé d'affaires, Peking, China, Madrid, Spain, Tokyo, Japan, and Korea 1894 Published Morocco as It Is. London: W. H. Allen 1897 Published The Real Condition of Cuba To-day. New York: Harper 1899 Published The Fight for Santiago. New York: Doubleday & McClure 1900 Married Henrietta Fairfax Morris Published The Golden Horseshoe. New York: Macmillan 1900 1910 Traveled in China, the Philippines, Russia, Japan, the Balkans, the West Indies, South America, and Mexico 1910 1911 Correspondent for the New York Times in Mexico 1912 Published The American Mediterranean. New York: Moffat, Yard Published Edward Fitzgerald Beale. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1913 Secretary to the governor-general of the Philippines 1914 Commissioner of public utilities, the Philippines 1915 Special mission in Mexico Accompanied German General Paul von Hindenberg's army on the eastern front as a reporter 1916 1917 Adviser, American-Mexican Joint Commission 1917 1918 Major on duty, Army War College, Washington, D.C., and with the American Expeditionary Force, France 1918 Representative at the Congress of Oppressed Nationalities, Paris, France 1919 Lieutenant colonel attached to American Mission to the Peace Conference, Inter-Allied Mission to Austro-Hungary and the Balkan States, and special mission to Germany and Bohemia 1920 circa 1923 Columnist, Baltimore Sun 1937 Published Heyday in a Vanished World. New York: W. W. Norton 1944 Published Unfinished Business. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran 1945 Pulitzer Prize for Unfinished Business Published When the French Were Here. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran 1946 Published Suitors and Suppliants. New York: Prentice-Hall 1951, June 8 Died, Washington, D.C.

From the guide to the Stephen Bonsal Papers, 1890-1973, (bulk 1900-1947), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)

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Subjects:

  • American newspapers
  • American newspapers
  • Literature
  • Santiago Campaign, 1898
  • Spanish
  • Spanish
  • Spanish
  • Voyages and travels
  • World War, 1914-1918
  • World War, 1914-1918
  • World War, 1914-1918

Occupations:

  • Foreign correspondents
  • Journalists

Places:

  • New York (State)--New York (as recorded)
  • Japan (as recorded)
  • Mexico (as recorded)
  • Philippines (as recorded)
  • Japan (as recorded)
  • Cuba (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • Mexico (as recorded)

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