Paul Scott Mowrer

Paul Scott Mowrer (July 14, 1887 – April 4, 1971) was an American newspaper correspondent.

Paul Scott Mowrer
Born	(1887-07-14)July 14, 1887 Bloomington, Illinois
Died	April 4, 1971(1971-04-04) (aged 83) Beaufort, South Carolina
Occupation	Newspaper correspondent
Alma mater	University of Michigan
Notable awards	Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence
Spouse	Winifred Adams ​ ​ (m. 1909; div. 1933)​ Hadley Richardson ​ (m. 1933)​
Relatives	Edgar Ansel Mowrer (brother)

Early life and career

Paul Scott Mowrer was born in Bloomington, Illinois on July 14, 1887.^[1] He studied at the University of Michigan and began his newspaper career in 1905 as a reporter in Chicago.^[2] He was a correspondent at the front during the First Balkan War and again in the War in Europe from 1914 to 1918. In 1921 he acted as special correspondent of the Disarmament Conference. In 1929 he was awarded the first Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence while at the Chicago Daily News.^[1] He also contributed many articles to magazines on world politics. In 1968, he was named Poet Laureate of New Hampshire.^[3]

His brother Edgar Ansel Mowrer also won the Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence, in 1933.^[1]

Personal life

Mowrer married Winifred Adams on May 8, 1909. They divorced in April 1933.^[4]

In the spring of 1927, Mowrer met Hadley Richardson shortly after her divorce from Ernest Hemingway.^[5] On July 3, 1933, after a five-year courtship, Richardson and Mowrer married in London. Richardson was especially grateful to Mowrer for his warm relationship with Jack "Bumby" Hemingway, her son from her former marriage.^[6] Soon after the marriage, they moved to a suburb of Chicago,^[7] where they lived during World War II.

Mowrer died in Beaufort, South Carolina on April 4, 1971.^[1][2]

Works

• Hours of France, poems (1918)
• Balkanized Europe: A Study in Political Analysis and Reconstruction (1921)
• House of Europe, autobiography (1945)
• On Going to Live in New Hampshire, poems (1953)

References

1. Brennan 1999.
2. The Beaufort Gazette 1971.
3. The Portsmouth Herald 1968.
4. The San Bernardino Sun 1933.
5. Kert 1999, p. 199.
6. Kert 1999, p. 251.
7. Workman 1983.

Bibliography

• "Divorce Given Wife of Newspaper Man". The San Bernardino Sun. Paris (published April 23, 1933). April 22, 1933. p. 3. Retrieved July 28, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
• "Council Keeps 'Pure Lottery' Off Ballot". The Portsmouth Herald. October 1, 1968. p. 7. Retrieved July 28, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
• "Paul Scott Mowrer". The Beaufort Gazette. April 8, 1971. p. 9. Retrieved July 28, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
• Workman, Brooke (1983). "Twenty-Nine Things I Know about Bumby Hemingway". The English Journal. 72 (2): 24–26. doi:10.2307/816722. JSTOR 816722.
• Brennan, Elizabeth A.; Clarage, Elizabeth C. (1999). Who's Who of Pulitzer Prize Winners. Oryx Press. p. 70. Retrieved July 28, 2023 – via Google Books.
• Kert, Bernice (1999) [1983]. The Hemingway Women. Norton. ISBN 0-393-31835-4.

Further reading

• Kemp, Bill (October 2, 2011). "Award-winning journalist recalls children's paradise on East Grove". The Pantagraph. Bloomington, Illinois.

External links

• Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived March 22, 2018)
• Paul Scott Mowrer Papers at Newberry Library