Ralph Pulitzer

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Ralph Pulitzer

1879–1939

An heir to one of America’s great newspaper empires, he led the New York World and also wrote fiction and nonfiction of his own. His life joined publishing power, literary ambition, and the high-profile social world of early 20th-century New York.

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Over the Front in an Aeroplane, and Scenes Inside the French and Flemish Trenches

Over the Front in an Aeroplane, and Scenes Inside the French and Flemish Trenches

by Ralph Pulitzer

About the author

Born in St. Louis on June 11, 1879, he was the eldest son of publisher Joseph Pulitzer. After his father’s death, he took on a leading role at the Press Publishing Co. and became president of the company behind the New York World and the Evening World.

He was known not only as a newspaper executive but also as an author. Sources consistently describe him as a publisher and writer, and his career reflects both sides of that identity: managing a major newspaper organization while publishing books under his own name.

Pulitzer died in New York on June 14, 1939, just after his 60th birthday. Remembered as part of the Pulitzer family’s publishing legacy, he stands out as a figure who carried that famous name into a new generation of American journalism.