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'''Ted Morgan''' (March 30, 1932 – December 13, 2023) was a French-American biographer, journalist, and historian.<ref>{{cite web |last=Kandell |first=Jonathan |title=Ted Morgan, 91, Dies; Pulitzer-Winning Writer Straddled Two Cultures |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=December 14, 2023 |access-date=2024-07-14 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/14/business/media/ted-morgan-dead.html}}</ref>
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Morgan was born '''[[Count]] Sanche Charles Armand Gabriel de Gramont''' in [[Geneva]]. He was the son of Gabriel Antoine Armand, [[Count]] de Gramont (1908–1943), a French diplomat<ref>{{cite book|first=Ted|last=Morgan|pages=30 & 72|title=My Battle of Algiers|date=January 31, 2006 |publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=0-06-085224-0}}</ref> who served as a pilot in the French [[escadrille]] in England during World War II
[[Gramont family|Gramont]] is an old French noble family. His father was the son of the [[Agénor de Gramont, 11th Duke of Gramont|11th Duke of Gramont]] and his third wife, Maria of the Princes [[Ruspoli]].
After his father died in a training flight, Morgan began to lead two parallel lives. He received his undergraduate degree from [[Yale University]] (where he was a member of [[Manuscript Society]]) in 1954 and an [[M.S.]] degree from [[Columbia University]]'s [[Columbia Journalism School|Graduate School of Journalism]] in 1955. Although he held brief journalistic positions at ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' and the ''[[Telegram & Gazette|Worcester Telegram]]'' during this period, he was still a member (albeit a reluctant one) of the French nobility. From 1955 to 1957, he was conscripted into the [[French Army]] amid the [[Algerian War]], initially serving as a [[second lieutenant]] with a [[tirailleurs Senegalais|Senegalese regiment]] of [[Troupes coloniales|Colonial Infantry]] and then as a propaganda officer. He subsequently wrote in frank detail of his brutalizing experiences while on active service in the ''bled'' (Algerian countryside) and of the atrocities committed by both sides during the [[Battle of Algiers (1956–57)|Battle of Algiers]].<ref>Ted Morgan, ''My Battle of Algiers''. {{ISBN|0-06-085224-0}}.</ref>▼
==Career==
▲After his father died in a training flight, Morgan began to lead two parallel lives. He received his undergraduate degree from [[Yale University]] (where he was a member of [[Manuscript Society]]) in 1954 and an [[M.S.]] degree from [[Columbia University]]'s [[Columbia Journalism School|Graduate School of Journalism]] in 1955. Although he held brief journalistic positions at ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' and the ''[[Telegram & Gazette|Worcester Telegram]]'' during this period, he was still a member (albeit a reluctant one) of the French nobility. From 1955 to 1957, he was conscripted into the [[French Army]] amid the [[Algerian War]], initially serving as a [[second lieutenant]] with
Following his military service, Morgan returned to New York as a reporter for the [[Associated Press]] (1958-59). While serving as a reporter and correspondent for the ''[[New York Herald Tribune]]'' from 1959 to 1964, he won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, Edition Time]] in 1961 for what was described as "[[s:Leonard Warren Dies at the Met|his moving account of the death]] of [[Leonard Warren]] on the Metropolitan Opera stage."<ref name=prize1961>[http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Local-Reporting "Local Reporting"]. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-02.</ref> At the time, Morgan was still a French citizen writing under the name of "Sanche de Gramont".
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In the 1970s, Morgan stopped using the byline "Sanche de Gramont". He became an American citizen in 1977, renouncing his titles of nobility. The name he adopted as a U.S. citizen, "Ted Morgan", is an [[anagram]] of "de Gramont". The new name was a conscious attempt to discard his aristocratic French past. He had settled on a "name that conformed with the language and cultural norms of American society, a name that telephone operators and desk clerks could hear without flinching" (''On Becoming American,'' 1978). Morgan was featured in the [[CBS]] news program ''[[60 Minutes]]'' in 1978. The segment explored Morgan's reasons for embracing American culture.
Morgan wrote biographies of [[William S. Burroughs]], [[Jay Lovestone]], [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] and [[Winston Churchill]]. The last-named was a finalist
[https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1982 "National Book Awards – 1982"]. National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2013-11-02.</ref>{{efn|''Walter Lippmann and the American Century'' by [[Ronald Steel]] won the 1982 [[List of winners of the National Book Award#Biography|National Book Award for paperback "Autobiography/Biography"]]. <br>From 1980 to 1983 in [[National Book Award#History|National Book Award history]] there were dual hardcover and paperback awards in most categories, and [[National Book Award for Nonfiction#nonfiction categories|several nonfiction subcategories]] including General Nonfiction. Like most of the paperback-award-winning books, ''Walter Lippmann'' and ''Maugham'' were reissues.}} He also wrote for newspapers and magazines.
==Personal life==
Morgan died from complications of dementia at a nursing home in Manhattan, New York City, on December 13, 2023, at the age of 91.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/12/13/ted-morgan-author-dead/ |title=Ted Morgan, acclaimed author with a vivid past, dies at 91|date=December 13, 2023|last=Drogin|first=Bob|publisher=The Washington Post|access-date=December 13, 2023}} {{paywall}}</ref>▼
In 1958, he married ''Margaret'' Chanler Emmet Kinnicutt, a daughter of Mrs. John Benton Prosser ({{nee}} Margaret Chanler [[C. Temple Emmet|Emmet]]) in [[Mexico City]].<ref name="1958Wedding">{{cite news |title=Count Sanche de Gramont Marries Margaret Kinnicutt in Mexico City |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1958/02/13/archives/count-sanche-de-gramont-marries-margaret-kinnicutt-in-mexico-city.html?searchResultPosition=3 |access-date=23 September 2024 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=February 13, 1958}}</ref>
▲Morgan died from complications of dementia at a nursing home in Manhattan, New York City, on December 13, 2023, at the age of 91.<ref>{{cite
==Selected books==
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*''Wilderness at Dawn: The Settling of the North American Continent'' Simon & Schuster, 1993, {{ISBN|9780671690885}}
*''An Uncertain Hour: The French, the Germans, the Jews, the Barbie Trial, and the City of Lyon, 1940–1945'' (1990)
*{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=09ivSR7SO90C&q=Ted+Morgan|title=Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|orig-year=1988|year=
*''FDR: A Biography'', Simon & Schuster, 1985, {{ISBN|9780671454951}}
*''Churchill:
*''Rowing toward Eden'', Houghton Mifflin, 1981, {{ISBN|9780395297148}}
*''Maugham'' Simon & Schuster, 1980, {{ISBN|9780671240776}}
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