Bonsal, Stephen, 1865-1951

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)