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Stephen Bonsal

すてぃーぶん・ぼんさる

Suteibun Bonsaru

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1865-03-29 （Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.）
Died
1951-06-08 （United States） age 86
Nationality
United States
Languages
English
Residence History
Baltimore, Maryland → Concord, New Hampshire → Heidelberg, Germany → Bonn, Germany → Vienna, Austria

Career

Occupations
journalist, war correspondent, diplomat, translator, author
Active Years
1885-1951

Education

St. Paul's School
General Education
Country: United States

Awards

Pulitzer Prize for History
1945
Work: Unfinished Business
Organization: Columbia University
Result: Winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Unfinished Business

1944 History/Memoir

A diary of his experiences at the Paris Peace Conference, winning the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for History.

Paris Peace ConferenceImpact of warPlight of ordinary people

Bibliography

  • Morocco as It Is
  • The Real Condition of Cuba Today
  • The Fight for Santiago
  • The Golden Horseshoe
  • The American Mediterranean
  • Edward Fitzgerald Beale: A Pioneer in the Path of Empire, 1823–1903
  • Heyday in a Vanished World
  • Unfinished Business
  • When the French Were Here
  • Suitors and Supplicants
  • The Cause of Liberty

Legacy

American journalist, diplomat, and author who covered numerous wars, served in diplomacy, and won the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for History. His sons were also diplomats and a judge.

Quotes

  • No one else has presented the plight of the plain people of Europe, in relation to the strained secrecy of the Conference, and few have written of their agony as does Colonel Bonsal in terms so hardheaded and so poignant.
    Source: Time magazine (1951)

Trivia

  • His second son, Philip Bonsal, was a career diplomat. Another son, Dudley Bonsal, was a U.S. District Judge.
  • Claimed to have visited all countries of Europe, South America, and Asia except Persia.