With its proximity to the cultural hub of New York City and its quieter suburban and rural landscapes, Connecticut was fertile ground for artists and writers in the period of Modernist movements between 1913 and 1979. Many of these cultural figures are well known through biographical and critical studies. Creative Places seeks to show how place played a significant role in creative work, and how in turn the artists and writers influenced communities in Connecticut.
Leland Stowe
Journalism/Non-Fiction
1899 – 1994
- Biography/Description of Work
Born in Southbury, Stowe grew up in Seymour and was a graduate of Wesleyan University. He became a foreign correspondent for the New York Tribune in 1926, was assigned to Paris, and in 1930 won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Paris Reparations Conference. During the rise of the Nazi party, Stowe traveled to German in 1933, and wrote a series of articles exposing the party’s militaristic and expansionist bent. After World War II had started, he was a war correspondent for the Chicago Daily and New York Post, whose work was considered politically influential, particularly in England and Norway. With the end of the war, he led Radio Free Europe’s News and Information Service for two years, and in 1955 became a professor of journalism at the University of Michigan.
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- Information from Marian O'Keefe from Seymour - pdf on the Z drive in Creative Places under Creative Places - Kristen folder titled Seymour - Leland Stowe Information. It is found in the Seymour folder.
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