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Bruce Alexander Cook (1932 – November 9, 2003) was an American journalist and author who also wrote under the pseudonym Bruce Alexander, creating historical novels about a blind 18th-century Englishman and also a 20th-century Mexican-American detective. ==Biography== Cook was born in 1932 in Chicago. His family moved often as a child, his father being a train dispatcher with frequent new assignments. He earned a degree in literature from Loyola University (Chicago).〔Myrna Oliver, "Bruce Cook, 71; Wrote Mysteries Set in L.A., 18th Century England," ''Los Angeles Times.'' November 18, 2003.()〕 His first wife was Catherine Coghlan, with whom he had three children, Catherine (Katy), Bob, and Ceci. He married concert violinist Judith Aller in 1994.〔〔"Bruce Alexander Cook, 71, Crime Writer", ''New York Times'', November 16, 2003.()〕 He served as a translator in the U.S. Army in Frankfurt, Germany, in the late 1950s and also did public relations work. He joined the editorial staff of the ''National Observer'' in Washington, D.C., in 1967 and covered movies, books, and music. When that newspaper folded, he became book editor of ''USA Today'', the ''Detroit News'', and then the ''Los Angeles Daily News'' (from 1984 to 1990).() He was a senior editor at ''Newsweek''. In the meantime, he was writing as a free-lance, selling to such publications as the ''National Catholic Reporter''.〔〔 He died of a stroke November 9, 2003, in Queen of Angels-Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, Hollywood, California.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bruce Alexander Cook」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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