George Anthony Weller was an American novelist, playwright, and journalist for The New York Times and Chicago Daily News.
15 Facts About George Weller
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George Weller won a 1943 Pulitzer Prize as a Daily News war correspondent.
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George Weller was born in Boston in 1907 and graduated from the Roxbury Latin School in 1925.
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George Weller was editorial chairman of The Harvard Crimson as a college student graduated from Harvard in 1929.
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George Weller studied acting in Vienna, Austria as the only American member of Max Reinhardt's theater company.
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George Weller was named to the Balkan reporting team of The New York Times, and during the 1930s published two novels, numerous short stories, and freelance journalism from around Europe.
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George Weller was married twice, first in 1932 to artist Katherine Deupree of Cincinnati, with whom he had a daughter Ann.
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In 1957, George Weller had a second child, Anthony, by the British ballet teacher and scholar Gladys Lasky George Weller, with whom he maintained a relationship for over thirty years.
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In December 1940, soon after the beginning of World War II, George Weller began working for the Chicago Daily News Foreign Service and covered the war in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific as one of the war's great correspondents, winning a 1943 Pulitzer Prize for his work.
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George Weller wrote a pamphlet "The Belgian Campaign in Ethiopia" published by the Belgian Information Center as part of its World War II dissemination of information favorable to Belgium and to Belgium's role in the Belgian Congo, a valuable colony then and for many previous decades.
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George Weller sent a copy to Tokyo for transmission to the United States.
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George Weller's War includes articles which were published by the Chicago Daily News, The Boston Globe and The Daily Telegraph of London.
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George Weller's reporting on Nagasaki remains one of his lasting legacies.
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George Weller died at his home in San Felice Circeo, Italy, on December 19,2002, at the age of 95.
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George Weller provided the inspiration for longtime friend Sean O Faolain's 1974 short story Something, Everything, Anything, Nothing.