Ted Morgan (March 30, 1932 – December 13, 2023) was a French-American biographer, journalist, and historian. [1] Morgan was born Count Sanche Charles Armand Gabriel de Gramont in Geneva.

Dec 14, 2023 · Ted Morgan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and prolific author of acclaimed nonfiction books who renounced his noble French title in favor of a conventional all-American name, died on...

Dec 13, 2023 · On March 4, 1960, a dapper French count turned American journalist named Sanche de Gramont was working the night rewrite desk at the New York Herald Tribune.

Jan 8, 2024 · Morgan, who drew acclaim for biographies of author W. Somerset Maugham and statesman Winston Churchill and mined his own remarkable life story in three vivid memoirs, died Dec. 13 at a...

CAREER: Associated Press, New York City, reporter, 1958–59; New York Herald Tribune, New York City, reporter and correspondent, 1959–64; freelance journalist and writer, 1964–. Military service: French Army, 1956–57; became lieutenant. MEMBER: PEN, Authors Guild.

Dec 13, 2023 · He worked as a journalist for many years, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 for local reporting written under pressure of a deadline. He first came to the United States in 1937, and became a naturalized citizen in February 1977, at which time he had his name legally changed to Ted Morgan.

Ted Morgan, Swiss writer. Recipient (as Sanche de Gramont) Pulitzer prize for local reporting, 1961.

Mar 2, 2024 · Morgan wrote 25 books, including three volumes of dashing memoirs and biographies of William S. Burroughs, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. A Pulitzer prize winner, Morgan died on December 13, aged 91.

He settled in the States and rejecting his French lineage he changed his name to Ted Morgan (an anagram of "de Gramont"). He wrote biographies on Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill among others and won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting when he published his memoirs of the war in Algeria.