Alan Moorehead

1910 - 1983

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

country of citizenship: United Kingdom, Australia, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: University of Melbourne

occupation: war correspondent, journalist, writer

award received: Officer of the Order of Australia, Commander of the Order of the British Empire

Alan McCrae Moorehead, (22 July 1910 – 29 September 1983) was a war correspondent and author of popular histories, most notably two books on the nineteenth-century exploration of the Nile, The White Nile (1960) and The Blue Nile (1962). Australian-born, he lived in England, and Italy, from 1937. Source: Wikipedia (en)