Kobler, John.

Author, journalist.

From the description of Haitian revolution research materials, 1791-[ca. 1950]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122486157

The John Kobler/Haitian Revolution Research Material was collected in the early 1960's by John Kobler, an author and journalist, toward a biography of Toussaint Louverture. The bulk of the material consists of photocopies of books, pamphlets and printed and autograph documents and letters available in public libraries, archival collections and private institutions in France, Haiti and the United States.

Born in 1910 in Mt. Vernon, New York, John Kobler is the author of Ardent Spirit: The Rise and Fall of the Prohibition (1973) and various biographies, including that of John Hunter (1960), Al Capone (1971) and John Barrymore (1977). He contributed regularly to various popular magazines, including the New Yorker, Collier's and the Saturday Evening Post, and in the 1930's worked as a foreign correspondent in Europe. Kobler served as a civilian intelligence officer and as an attache at the American Embassy in Paris in the post-war period.

A 50,000 word manuscript of his unfinished biography of Toussaint Louverture remains in Kobler's possession.

From the guide to the Haitian revolution research materials, 1791-[ca. 1950, (The New York Public Library. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division.)