William Bayard Hale (1869 – April 10, 1924) was an American

journalist A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalism ...

. He wrote the 1912 campaign biography of

Woodrow Wilson Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856February 3, 1924) was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. A member of the Democratic Party, Wilson served as the president of ...

. Later, after souring on Wilson, he wrote a derisive critique of Wilson's literary style.Hale, William Bayard, ''The Story of a Style''.
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Barbara Tuchman Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (; January 30, 1912 – February 6, 1989) was an American historian and author. She won the Pulitzer Prize twice, for ''The Guns of August'' (1962), a best-selling history of the prelude to and the first month of World ...

's ''The Zimmerman Telegram'' as a German propaganda agent. According to the ''Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia'' (6th edition, 2012), He died in Munich on April 10, 1924.

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American male journalists 1869 births 1924 deaths {{US-journalist-19thC-stub