According to the critic Clive James, "Moorehead was there for the battles and the conferences through North Africa, Italy and Normandy all the way to the end. He was twice mentioned in despatches and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. ĭuring World War II he won an international reputation for his coverage of campaigns in the Middle East and Asia, the Mediterranean and Northwest Europe. He married Lucy Milner, who at the Daily Express in 1937 "presided over a women's page free of the patronising sentimentality which marked much writing for women at the time". Writer, world traveller, biographer, essayist, journalist, Moorehead was one of the most successful writers in English of his day. He travelled to England in 1937 and became a renowned foreign correspondent for the London Daily Express. He was educated at Scotch College, with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne. Australian-born, he lived in England, and Italy, from 1937.Īlan Moorehead was born in Melbourne, Australia. Alan McCrae Moorehead, AO, OBE (22 July 1910 – 29 September 1983) was a war correspondent and author of popular histories, most notably two books on the nineteenth-century exploration of the Nile, The White Nile (1960) and The Blue Nile (1962).
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