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Michael Davie (15 January 1924 Cranleigh, Surrey – 7 December 2005,〔John Thompson ("http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2005/dec/14/pressandpublishing.obituaries" ), ''The Guardian'', 14 December 2005〕 Ewelme, Oxfordshire) was a British journalist. Davie was the last of three children born to the head of a firm of stockbrokers.〔("Michael Davie" ), ''The Times'', 12 December 2005〕 Davie was educated at Haileybury and Merton College, Oxford. where he began reading English, but after war service in the Royal Navy, returned to study History.〔(Obituary: Michael Davie ), ''Daily Telegraph'', 15 December 2005〕 Davie was offered a job as diplomatic correspondent by David Astor, editor of ''The Observer'' before he graduated, but the post had been filled by the time he had done so.〔Donald Trelford ("Michael Davie, writer from a golden age" ), ''The Observer'', 11 December 2005〕 After a brief period at the ''Manchester Evening News'', he joined ''The Observer'' in 1950 as religious correspondent.〔 Davie subsequently became the newspaper's news editor, sports writer and editor of the colour supplement when it was first published in 1965.〔 Close to Astor, he was appointed deputy editor of the newspaper, a position he retained until 1969. He then returned to writing, still on ''The Observer'' staff, where he edited the 'Notebook' feature. Davie was the editor of the diaries of novelist Evelyn Waugh, the volume appeared in 1976. That year he won the ''What the Papers Say'' 'Journalist of the Year' Award.〔Michael Leapman ("Michael Davie" ), ''The Independent'', 8 December 2005〕 In 1977 he settled in Melbourne, Australia, where he became Associate Editor of ''The Age'', becoming the newspaper's editor in 1979, a post he retained until returning to London and ''The Observer'' in 1981 for the remainder of his career. Davie retired in 1988.〔 Following his retirement, he wrote a biography of the press baron Lord Beaverbrook with his wife which was published in 1992. His other books include a study of President Lyndon B. Johnson ''LBJ'' (1966); ''In the Future Now'' (1972), an account of sun-rise industries in California; ''The Titanic'' (1986) and (with his son Simon) ''The Faber Book of Cricket'' (1987).〔Dennis Griffiths (ed) ''The Encyclopedia of the Britiash Press, 1492-1992'', London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992, p.191〕 His final completed book was ''Anglo-Australian Attitudes'' published in 2000. Michael Davie married twice, his wife from 1975 was the writer and journalist Anne Chisholm. With his first wife (Robin Atherton) he had a son and two daughters, and an adopted son (who predeceased him) with his second.〔 ==References== 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「Michael Davie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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