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H. R. (Hubert Renfro) Knickerbocker
1898–1949
A Pulitzer-winning foreign correspondent who chased the biggest political stories of the interwar years, he wrote with first-hand urgency about the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and a changing Europe. His reporting helped bring complicated world events to a broad American audience.
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Is Tomorrow Hitler's? 200 Questions on the Battle of Mankind
by H. R. (Hubert Renfro) Knickerbocker
About the author
Born in Yoakum, Texas, in 1898, Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker became one of the best-known American foreign correspondents of his time. He studied at Southwestern University and later at Columbia, then built a career reporting from Europe during years of intense political upheaval.
Knickerbocker won the 1931 Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence for his reporting on the Soviet Union's Five-Year Plan. He went on to write books and articles about major international developments, including the rise of Nazi Germany and the crises that pushed Europe toward war. Contemporary archives and reference sources also show how widely his work circulated in newspapers and magazines.
He died in 1949 in an air crash near Bombay while traveling on assignment. Today he is remembered as a vivid, fast-moving reporter whose work captured the drama and danger of international journalism in the first half of the twentieth century.