Alan moorehead biography

He travelled to England in and became a renowned foreign correspondent for the London " Daily Express ".

Alan moorehead biography

Writer, world traveller, biographer, essayist, journalist, Moorehead was one of the most successful writers in English of his day. He married Lucy Milner, who at the Daily Express in "presided over a women's page free of the patronising sentimentality which marked much writing for women at the time" [ "Eyewitness" by Geoffrey Cox page ].

He was twice mentioned in dispatches and was awarded the OBE. In , his book "Gallipoli" about the Allies ' disastrous World War I campaign at Gallipoli, received almost unprecedented critical acclaim though it was later criticized by the British Gallipoli historian Robert Rhodes James as "deeply flawed and grievously over-praised". In England, the book won the "Sunday Times" thousand-pound award and gold medal was the first recipient of the Duff Cooper Memorial Award.

The presentation of the latter was made by Sir Winston Churchill on 28 November In , Moorehead and his wife, younger son and daughter made what became for him the first of an annual series of visits to Australia. There he had completed a television script for his manuscript "Darwin and the Beagle", but tragedy struck before the book was published.

That December, suffering from headaches, he went into London's Westminster Hospital for an angiogram which precipitated a major stroke. Cooper's Creek is a gripping, intense historical narrative about the harshness of the Australian outback and the people who were brave enough to go into the very depths of that uncharted country.

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