Andrew St. George was born in Hungary in 1923. He attended Columbia University in the 1950s but never graduated, preferring to find work as a writer and photojournalist in order to support his wife and frequent collaborator, Jean, and their growing family. St. George worked for United States military intelligence in Vienna after World War II. For the rest of his life he worked as an investigative reporter and photographer, especially focusing on Latin America. His interest in that region began when he conducted one of the first full-length interviews with Fidel Castro and members of his guerrilla army in the Sierra Maestra during the fall of 1957. The interview was later published in Look magazine. St. George also published accounts of his time with the guerrillas in Coronet, Cavalier, and Life . During 1959 and most of 1960, St. George lived in Cuba; by the summer of 1960, he had become disillusioned with the Cuban Revolution's authoritarianism. During the next three decades he pursued his career as a photojournalist, including working a number of years at Spotlight Magazine in Washington, D.C. He had two sons, Andrew and Tom. St. George died on May 2, 2001.
From the guide to the Andrew St. George papers, 1957-1990, (Manuscripts and Archives)
