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(Harriet) Virginia Spencer Cowles OBE (August 24, 1912 – September 17, 1983,〔''Contemporary Authors'' sketch by Margaret Mazurkiewicz Thomson Gale, 2004. ISBN 9780787678821 〕 though some sources list 1910 as her birth year〔''Reporting World War II, Part One: American Journalism 1938-1944'' Samuel Lynn Hynes Library of America, 1995 ISBN 978-1-88301104-8 〕) was a noted American journalist, biographer, and travel writer. During her long career, Cowles went from covering fashion, to covering the Spanish Civil War, the turbulent period in Europe leading up to World War II, and the entire war. Her service as a correspondent was recognized by the British government with an OBE in 1947. After the war, she published a number of critically acclaimed biographies of historical figures. In 1983, while traveling with her husband, she was killed in an automobile accident which left him severely injured. ==Early life== Cowles was born in 1910 in Brattleboro, Vermont to Dr. Edward Spencer Cowles and his wife Florence Wolcott Cowles, née Jacquith. In the 1930s, she started to work as a journalist in the United States. After first working on the gossip columns of Boston and New York newspapers - for which she wrote mainly about fashion, love and society - she moved to foreign reporting. 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「Virginia Cowles」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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