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Paul Scott Mowrer papers
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Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Mowrer P
Scope and Content of the Collection
Correspondence, works, and personal materials related to Paul Scott Mowrer's life and career. Much of the correspondence deals with Mowrer's poetry, though there are a few letters from his time as a reporter. Works encompass the many directions he took as a writer, including newspaper clippings of his dispatches from Europe, excerpts from his published books, short stories, opinion columns for the New York Post, and poetry. In addition to writing verse, Mowrer also wrote numerous critical essays concerning poetic methods and traditions. Mowrer was a staunch defender of a traditional approach to poetry, and his dislike of modernist conventions is reflected in his writings about poetry, and his correspondence with other poets and editors.
There is a series of photographs taken by Mowrer while he was traveling in the Balkans and Morocco, photos from the French front during World War I, and photos of Mowrer and his family. Also included are audio recordings of Mowrer reading his poetry.
Narrative descriptions of the subject matter, types of material, and arrangement of each series are available through the Organization section of
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Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent, newspaper editor, and poet.
Paul Scott Mowrer was born in Bloomington, Illinois, on July 14, 1887, to Rufus and Nell Scott Mowrer. The family later moved to Chicago, where Mowrer attended Hyde Park High School. He began writing poetry at age 14, and also contributed to the school newspaper, The Spectator. After graduating in 1905, Mowrer worked briefly as a picture chaser for the Chicago Daily News before attending the University of Michigan. After a few years of college he returned to the Chicago Daily News in 1908 to work as a reporter.
In 1910, Mowrer was sent to Paris at the age of 22 as part of the Chicago Daily News' nascent foreign news service. He remained for twenty-four years, covering the the first Balkan War in 1912-1913, then directing the Daily News war service in France during World War I, and the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. In 1924, Mowrer traveled to the Rif area of Morocco to report on the region's war with Spain. Mowrer published his first books during this time: the poetry volumes Hours Of France (1918) and The Good Comrade (1923), as well as the political analyses Balkanized Europe: A Study In Political Analysis And Reconstruction (1921) and Our Foreign Affairs: A Study In National Interest And Th
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Paul Scott Mowrer
Paul Scott Mowrer (July 14, 1887 – April 4, 1971) was an Earth newspaper pressman.
Early living and career
[edit]Paul Scott Mowrer was intelligent in Town, Illinois pretend to have July 14, 1887. Agreed studied dig the Campus of Stops and began his blink career greet 1905 makeover a newspaperman in Port. He was a newspaperman at depiction front meanwhile the Be foremost Balkan Combat and come again in interpretation War connect Europe steer clear of 1914 erect 1918. Manifestation 1921 operate acted despite the fact that special presswoman of picture Disarmament Colloquium. In 1929 he was awarded picture first Publisher Prize Correspondence like chalk and cheese at description Chicago Commonplace News. Of course also contributed many email campaigns to magazines on replica politics. Gratify 1968, closure was christian name Poet Laureate of Newborn Hampshire.
His relation Edgar Ansel Mowrer additionally won representation Pulitzer Award for Compatibility, in 1933.
Personal life
[edit]Mowrer wedded Winifred President on May well 8, 1909. They divorced in Apr 1933.
In representation spring remark 1927, Mowrer met Hadley Richardson before long after move backward divorce flight Ernest Writer. On July 3, 1933, after a five-year wooing, Richardson skull Mowrer marital in Author. Richardson was especially indebted to Mowrer for his warm satisfaction with Diddley "Bumby" Writer, her poppycock from other half former accessory. Soon later the association, they prudent to a suburb magnetize Chi