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Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker (January 31, 1898 – 1949) was an American journalist and author. He was nicknamed "Red" Knickerbocker from the color of his hair. ==Life== A son of Rev. Hubert Delancey Knickerbocker, H. R. Knickerbocker was born in Yoakum, Texas. He graduated from the Southwestern University in Texas, then studied psychiatry at Columbia University before becoming a career journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize.〔Walter Prescott Webb, Eldon Stephen Branda, ''The Handbook of Texas'' vol. 3 (1952), p. 482: "Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker, internationally known writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, was born in Yoakum, Texas, on January 31, 1898, the son of Rev. Hubert Delancey and Julia Catherine Knickerbocker..."〕 Knickerbocker was noted for reporting on German politics before and during World War II. From 1923 to 1933 he reported from Berlin, but because of his opposition to Hitler he was deported when Hitler came to power. In 1931, as a correspondent for the New York Evening Post and the Philadelphia Public Ledger, he won the Pulitzer Prize for ''"a series of articles on the practical operation of the Five Year Plan in Russia"''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fkn03 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Pulitzer Prize: 1931 Winners )〕 In 1941, after the German invasion of the Soviet Union but before American's entry into World War II, Knickerbocker foresaw the outcome of the European war: After World War II, Knickerbocker went to work for radio station WOR, in Newark, New Jersey. He was on assignment with a team of journalists touring Southeast Asia when they were all killed in a plane crash near Bombay, India, on July 12, 1949. Knickerbocker was married first to Laura Patrick in 1918, and they had one son, Conrad, later a daily book reviewer for the New York Times; his second marriage was to Agnes Schjoldager, and they had three daughters. 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「Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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