Marguerite Higgins

Marguerite Higgins was born on September 3rd, 1920 with Hong-Kong is a Journaliste and Correspondante of American war. It is the first woman to have obtained the Prix Pulitzer in 1951.

Biography

His father, Lawrence Higgins, an American working in a company of freight turned over to US with his family in 1923.

Higgins was educated with the the University of California. During its first years, she worked on the newspaper of the students, The Daily Californian . After its diploma obtained 1941, it entered to the Columbia University in order to have a master dismantles in journalism.

In 1942, Higgins was recruited by the New York Tribune . Higgins wished to become corresponding of war in Europe but it was not before 1944 that its editor association accepted to send it to London. The following years, it came on mission mainly to Europe, its first report of war came from France then later of Germany. Its mission implied to accompany the allied troops when they would enter the death camps Nazi of Dachau and of Buchenwald.

After the war, it covered the lawsuit of war of Nuremberg and the increasing tension between the West and Is Europe for The New York Tribune . In 1947 Higgins was promoted chief of the Office of Berlin.

In 1950 Higgins was sent to Japan where it became the chief of the office for the the Far East. During the war of Korea, Higgins came in South Korea where it made the report of the fall of the capital, Seoul, for the forces North-Korean.

The New York Tribune sent it towards the main thing to defer war, Homer Bigart, in South Korea which ordered in Higgins to return to Tokyo. Higgins refused to turn over and continued to be in competition with Bigart to have the best reports. That became more difficult when all the women reporters were prohibited on the first lines. Higgins was furious but was all the same able to persuade the general Douglas MacArthur to authorize it to continue its work on the face of war.

Higgins, was with the Marines when they landed with Inchon, 200 miles behind the lines North-Korean, on September 15th, 1950, shortly after that she was recognized like a journalist of war out of the commun run. Its personal style to defer war became popular near the American public. In October, 1950, Higgins was the subject of an article of Life Magazine .

In 1951, its book War in Korea , became a best-seller. It is this year that it obtained the price Pulitzer for international report and was elected woman of the Year Woman off the Year by the Associated Press news organization.

Higgins was sent to Vietnam in 1953 where it made the report of the defeat of the French Army with Dien Bein Phu. During the engagements she escaped from little from death while she went with her photographer, Robert Capra, which was killed while jumping on a mine.

In 1955 it travelled enormously to Soviet Union and published its book Red Plush and Black Bread (1955). This book was followed by another book on journalism, News has Singular Thing (1955). Higgins covered also the civil war in Congo.

Higgins did many visits in Vietnam and its book Our Vietnam Nightmare (1965), is very documented on the military engagement of the United States in the area. During its stay in Vietnam in 1965 it caught the Leishmaniose, a tropical disease. Marguerite Higgins was repatriated in the United States but succumbed on January 3rd, 1966. In recognition of its exceptional services, it is buried with the national cemetery of Arlington in Virginia.

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