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Robert Sampson Elegant (born March 7, 1928) is a British-American author and journalist born in New York City. He spent many years in Asia as a journalist. The Asian settings of all but one of his novels reflect that experience. He covered both the Korean and the Vietnam Wars, as well as four or five lesser conflicts. His latest novel, ''Cry Peace,'' is centered on the Korean War. ==Career== Elegant holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania (AB, Phi Beta Kappa); and Columbia University (MA, Far Eastern studies, MS journalism, Distinguished Alumnus Award), as well as a diploma of proficiency in Chinese from Yale University. He has been a Pulitzer Prize traveling fellow (1951) and was given an Edgar Allan Poe Special Award in 1967 for ''A Kind of Treason,'' among the best first mystery thriller novels of the preceding year. He has, among other awards, been given four prizes for best interpretation of foreign news by the Overseas Press Club of America. He was shortlisted for a Pulitzer Prize in international reporting three times. He has been a visiting professor at the University of South Carolina and Boston University. He has been a fellow of the Washington, D.C. American Enterprise Institute, the Berlin, Germany Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Studies), and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. Elegant is the patron of the Manchu Shih-tzu Society of Great Britain; he raises shih-tzu (Chinese lion) dogs and has been a devoted amateur sailor and owner of small craft for 50 years. He now lives in London and Italy. He frequently travels mainly to the Far East. He speaks, reads, and writes in Chinese and Japanese, having studied both the classical and modern languages, as well as German, Italian, and some Indonesian. His articles have been published in hundreds of newspapers and scores of weekly, biweekly, and monthly journals across the world, and his books have been published in a number of languages in 20 countries. In Delhi, India on April 16, 1956, painter Moira Clarissa Brady became his wife. She died of cancer January 19, 1999. Elegant married author and editor Ursula Rosemary Righter (née Douglas) on May 10, 2003 in Italy. His children are Victoria Ann, a gynecological and pharmacological physician, and Simon David Brady, journalist and novelist. 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「Robert Elegant」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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