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Edward Alexander Powell (August 16, 1879 – November 13, 1957) was an American war correspondent during World War I and author.[1]
Powell in a 1920 magazine
Powell was born in Syracuse, New York in 1879. In 1898–1899 he worked for the Syracuse Journal, and in 1902 he became editor of Craftsman. From 1903 to 1904 he was an advertising manager for the Smith Premier Typewriter Company, based in London, England, and in 1905-1906 he worked in the Near East as a correspondent for British and American publications. From 1906 to 1909 he was a consular official in Syria and Egypt.[2]
Powell worked as a war correspondent during World War I and his position as a neutral allowed him access to both sides of the battle lines, from 1914 onwards. With the entry of the United States into the Great War in 1917, Powell was commissioned as a captain in military intelligence. He was injured in September 1918, and convalesced until the Armistice in November of that year, thereafter returning to the US. He left the US Armed Services with the rank of major.[1] Powell published his war journalism in newspapers and magazines such as The War Illustrated, New York World and the Daily Mail and his war books were published by Charles Scribner's Sons.
Powell then switched from journalism to a successful career as an adventure and travel writer, traveling widely across the globe and publishing some 20 more books between 1920 and 1954.[1]
1925 Beyond the Utmost Purple Rim: Abyssinia, Somaliland, Kenya Colony, Zanzibar, The Comoros, Madagascar (travel and adventure)
1925 The Map That is Half Unrolled: Equatorial Africa from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic (travel and adventure)
1925 Below the Line
1926 In Barbary: Tunisia, Morocco and the Sahara (travel and adventure)
1927 The Danger on the Danube (world politics)
1928 Embattled Borders: Eastern Europe from the Balkans to the Baltic (world politics)
1929 The Last Home of Mystery: Adventures in Nepal Together with Accounts of Ceylon, British India, the Native States, the Persian Gulf, the Overland Desert Mail and the Baghdad Railway (travel and adventure)
1931 Marches of the North: from Cape Breton to the Klondike (travel and adventure)
1931 Thunder over Europe (world politics)
1931 D.M.
1932 Undiscovered Europe (travel and adventure)
1932 Yonder Lies Adventure! (travel and adventure)
1933 Slanting Lines of Steel (World War I, adventures of a war correspondent)
1934 The Long Roll on the Rhine
1935 Red Drums
1936 Aerial odyssey: Cuba, Haiti, Dominican republic, Porto Rico, ... (travel and adventure)
