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George Anthony Weller (July 13, 1907 – December 19, 2002) was an American novelist, playwright, and journalist for ''The New York Times'' and ''Chicago Daily News''. He won a 1943 Pulitzer Prize as a ''Daily News'' war correspondent. Weller's reports from Nagasaki after its August 1945 nuclear bombing were censored by the U.S. military and not published in full until a book edited by his son in 2006. ==Life and career== Weller was born in Boston in 1907 and graduated from the Roxbury Latin School in 1925. He was editorial chairman of ''The Harvard Crimson'' as a college student graduated from Harvard in 1929. During his senior year there, he wrote the book and co-wrote the lyrics for the 83rd annual Hasty Pudding Club musical comedy production, ''Fireman, Save My Child!'' He studied acting in Vienna, Austria as the only American member of Max Reinhardt's theater company. Weller was named to the Balkan reporting team of ''The New York Times'', and during the 1930s also published two novels, numerous short stories, and freelance journalism from around Europe.〔Betty Wason, ''Miracle in Hellas: The Greeks Fight On.'' "Departure from Athens", 1943, pp.109–111.〕 Weller was married twice, first in 1932 to artist Katherine Deupree (1906–1984) of Cincinnati, with whom he had a daughter Ann. They divorced in 1944, and in 1948 he married reporter Charlotte Ebener (1918–1990): their marriage ended with Charlotte's death. In 1957, Weller had a second child, Anthony,〔Nichols, Darren v Weller, Anthony Residential Tribunal of New South Wales http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/sinodisp/au/cases/nsw/NSWRT/1997/212.html?query=〕 by the British ballet teacher and scholar Gladys Lasky Weller (1922–1988), with whom he maintained a relationship for over thirty years.〔A 2006 court case suggests that while Gladys Lasky did not marry Weller, she adopted the name of Weller pursuant to a Deed Poll from the British government.〕 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「George Weller」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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