| LC control no. | n 81089984 |
|---|---|
| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Knickerbocker, H. R. (Hubert Renfro), 1898-1949 |
| Variant(s) | Knickerbocker, Hubert Renfro, 1898-1949 Knickerbocker, Red, 1898-1949 |
| Birth date | 1898-01-31 |
| Death date | 1949-07-12 |
| Place of birth | Yoakum (Tex.) |
| Place of death | Mumbai (India) |
| Profession or occupation | Journalists Authors |
| Found in | His The red trade menace ... 1931. Danger forward, 1980, c1947: t.p. (H. R. Knickerbocker) Wikipedia, September 24, 2020 (Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker; Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker (January 31, 1898 - July 12, 1949) was an American journalist and author; he was nicknamed "Red" from the color of his hair; he was born in Yoakum, Texas, graduated from the Southwestern University in Texas, and studied psychiatry at Columbia University; he was noted for reporting on German politics before and during World War II; in 1931, as a correspondent for the New York Evening Post and the Philadelphia Public Ledger, he won the Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles on the practical operation of the Five Year Plan in Russia; after World War II, Knickerbocker went to work for radio station WOR, in Newark, New Jersey; he was on assignment with a team of journalists touring Southeast Asia when they were all killed in a plane crash near Bombay, India, on July 12, 1949) |
| Associated language | eng |
 |  |  |
View this record in: MARCXML | LC Authorities & Vocabularies | VIAF (Virtual International Authority File)
