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Ralph G. Martin (March 4, 1920 — January 9, 2013) was an American journalist who authored or co-authored about thirty books,〔(Ralph G. Martin bibliography at ''Open Library'' )〕 including popular biographies of recent historical figures, among which, ''Jennie'', a two-volume (1969 and 1971) study of Winston Churchill's American mother, Lady Randolph Churchill, became the most prominent bestseller. Other successful tomes focused on British royal romance (Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson in 1974, as well as Prince Charles and Lady Diana in 1985) and on the Kennedy family (John F. Kennedy in 1983 and Joseph P. Kennedy in 1995).〔(Ralph G. Martin bibliography at ''Library Thing'' )〕 Born in Chicago, Ralph Martin Goldberg was eight years old when his family moved to Brooklyn, and started using the name Ralph G. Martin at an early age. He studied at City College of New York and, subsequently, University of Missouri from which he graduated in 1941 with a bachelor's degree in journalism. Twenty-one years old upon receiving his diploma, he decided to hitchhike and found a newspaper job at ''Box Elder News Journal'' which served Brigham City, the county seat of Utah's Box Elder County. In December, following declaration of war in the aftermath of attack on Pearl Harbor, Martin enlisted in the Army and spent the war as a combat correspondent for the Armed Forces newspaper ''Stars and Stripes'' and the Army weekly magazine, ''Yank''. In 1944, having interviewed New York City's mayor, Fiorello La Guardia, for ''Yank'', Martin asked La Guardia to perform his marriage ceremony to Marjorie Pastel.〔(Fox, Margalit. "Ralph G. Martin, a Best-Selling Biographer, Dies at 92" (''The New York Times'', January 13, 2013) )〕 Returning to civilian life in 1945, Martin began working as editor for news and analysis publications ''Newsweek'' and ''The New Republic'' and became executive editor at decorating and domestic arts magazine ''House Beautiful''. During the months preceding the 1952 and 1956 presidential elections, he served as a member of the campaign staff for the Democratic nominee, Adlai Stevenson. Having lived for years in the Connecticut town of Westport, near New York City, Ralph G. Martin moved to the Kendal on Hudson retirement community in another of the city's suburbs, Sleepy Hollow, where he died seven-and-a-half weeks before his 93rd birthday. He and his wife Marjorie were the parents of two daughters and a son.〔("Ralph G. Martin obituary", ''The New York Times'', January 13, 2013 )〕 Upon publication of ''Seeds of Destruction: Joe Kennedy and His Sons'', he was invited for an hour-long conversation with Charlie Rose, broadcast December 8, 1995 on Rose's long-running TV interview program. A clip from the conversation was included on Rose's year-end show in memoriam of 35 guests on his programs, between 1991 and 2009, who died in 2013.〔(Charlie Rose: final show of 2013 — in memoriam of 35 former interviewees who died that year )〕 ==Selected bibliography== * * * *〔(''The Bosses'' (''Kirkus Reviews'', October 7, 1964) )〕〔(''The Bosses'' (''Political Research Quarterly'', September 1965) )〕 * * * * * * * * * * *〔(''"Golda: Golda Meir, the Romantic Years"'' (''Kirkus Reviews'', November 16, 1998) )〕 *〔(''"Henry and Clare"'' (''Publishers Weekly'', July 29, 1991) )〕 *〔(''"Seeds of Destruction"'' (''Publishers Weekly'', July 31, 1995) )〕 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「Ralph G. Martin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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