Robert Sampson Elegant was an American-British author and journalist.
14 Facts About Robert Elegant
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Robert Elegant spent many years in Asia as a journalist.
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Robert Elegant covered both the Korean and the Vietnam Wars, as well as four or five lesser conflicts.
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Robert Elegant was a Pulitzer Prize traveling fellow and received an Edgar Allan Poe Special Award in 1967 for A Kind of Treason, among the best first mystery thriller novels of the preceding year.
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Robert Elegant was shortlisted for a Pulitzer Prize in international reporting three times, a finalist twice.
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Robert Elegant was a visiting professor at the University of South Carolina and Boston University.
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Robert Elegant was a fellow of the Washington, DC American Enterprise Institute, the Berlin, Germany, Wissenschaftskolleg, Institute for Advanced Studies, and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University.
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Robert Elegant briefed Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger repeatedly on Asia in general, as well as China and Vietnam in particular.
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Robert Elegant was proud of a handwritten note from the former president whose undeniably momentous masterstroke in foreign affairs was reopening contact with mainland China.
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Robert Elegant spoke, read, and wrote Chinese and Japanese, having studied both the classical and modern languages, as well as German, Italian, and some Indonesian.
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Robert Elegant's articles were published in hundreds of newspapers and scores of weekly, biweekly, and monthly journals across the world, and his books were published in a number of languages in 20 countries.
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On 16 April 1956, Robert Elegant married painter Moira Clarissa Brady.
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On 10 May 2003, Robert Elegant married author and editor Ursula Rosemary Righter.
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Robert Elegant died at home in London on 20 June 2023, at the age of 95.