Leonard Mosley

Leonard Mosley
Born 11 February 1913
Manchester, UK
Died June 1992
Occupation Journalist, biographer

Leonard Oswald Mosley (11 February 1913 – June 1992)[1] was a British journalist, historian, biographer and novelist. His works include five novels and biographies of General George Marshall,Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, Orde Wingate, Walt Disney, Charles Lindbergh, Du Pont family, Eleanor Dulles, Allen Welsh Dulles, John Foster Dulles and Darryl F. Zanuck. He also worked as chief war correspondent for London's The Sunday Times.

Biography

Leonard Oswald Mosley was born in Manchester, England on 11 February 1913, the son of Leonard Cyril Mosley and Annie Althea Mosley née Glaiser.[2] He was educated at William Hulme's Grammar School.[3] At the age of seventeen he started work as a reporter for the Telegraph, a weekly paper, since defunct, which circulated in South Lancashire and North Cheshire. After a year working there he lost his job as a result of an ill-timed practical joke, and then spent six months as a freelance, living in his parental home in Didsbury.[4] Then in summer 1931 he left England and worked his passage to America.[5]

In New York he spent three months as an Assistant Stage Manager for a burlesque show, then for half a year worked as a journalist for the New York Daily Mirror.[6] In May 1932 he left the East Coast and drove to California in an old Ford Model T.[7] He arrived in Los Angeles just in time for the 1932 Summer Olympics, which he covered as an employee of United Press. Then he worked as a freelance journalist in Hollywood. He reported on the 1933 Long Beach earthquake and shortly afterwards returned to England.[8]

He found employment as a roving reporter, a job that took him all over the world. One early assignment, back n the USA, which made a great impression on him was the trial of Richard Hauptmann for the Lindbergh kidnapping.[9] Some years later he wrote a biography of Lindbergh.

Books

Honours

References

  1. ↑ "Leonard Mosley". BFI.
  2. ↑ myheritage.com
  3. ↑ "Literary Luncheon Featuring Three Prominent Authors". Sarasota Herald Tribune. February 7, 1982.
  4. ↑ So Far So Good chapter 3
  5. ↑ So Far So Good chapters 1, 2
  6. ↑ So Far So Good chapter 4
  7. ↑ So Far So Good chapter 5
  8. ↑ So Far So Good chapter 6
  9. ↑ So Far So Good chapter 7
  10. ↑ London Gazette 2nd supplement 21 June 1946
  11. ↑ London Gazette 26 June 1964

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