Paul Scott Mowrer (July 14, 1887 – April 7, 1971) was an American newspaper correspondent, born in Bloomington,

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. He studied at the

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and began his newspaper career as a reporter in Chicago, in 1905. He was a correspondent at the front during the 1st Balkan War and again in the War in Europe from 1914 to 1918. In 1921 he acted as special correspondent of the Disarmament Conference. In 1929 he was awarded the first

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while at the

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. He also contributed many articles to magazines on world politics. In 1968, he was named Poet Laureate of New Hampshire. In the spring of 1927, Mowrer met

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shortly after her divorce from

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. On July 3, 1933, after a five-year courtship, Hadley and Paul Mowrer were married in London. Hadley was especially grateful to Paul for his warm relationship with Jack "Bumby" Hemingway, her son from her former marriage. Soon after the marriage, they moved to a suburb of Chicago, where they lived during

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Works

* ''Hours of France'', poems (1918) * ''Balkanized Europe: A Study in Political Analysis and Reconstruction'' (1921) * ''House of Europe'', autobiography (1945) * ''On Going to Live in New Hampshire'', poems (1953)

References

External links

Official website
*
Paul Scott Mowrer Papers
at

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(Bloomington, Illinois newspaper)

Bibliography

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mowrer, Paul Scott American political writers Writers from Chicago Writers from Bloomington, Illinois Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence winners Writers from New Hampshire 1887 births 1971 deaths Chicago Daily News people University of Michigan alumni 20th-century American non-fiction writers War correspondents of the Balkan Wars 20th-century American male writers American male non-fiction writers