塔德·肖尔茨的个人简介
Tadeusz Witold Szulc (July 25, 1926 C May 21, 2001) was a reporter and writer of non-fiction books.中文简介
塔德·肖尔茨，曾任《纽约时报》驻欧洲和拉丁美洲的记者，办事处主任，他的十八本著作包括里程碑式的《教皇约翰·保罗二世》、《菲德尔》、《那时和现在》、后两本获得了美国海外出版商俱乐部的年度最佳奖，现居华盛顿特区。
Life
Szulc was born in Warsaw, Poland, the son of Seweryn and Janina Szulc. He attended school in Switzerland. In 1940 he emigrated from Poland to join his family (who had left Poland in the mid-1930s) in Brazil. There he studied at theUniversity of Brazil, but in 1945 he abandoned his studies to work as a reporter for the Associated Press in Rio de Janeiro. In 1968 he was a reporter in Czechoslovakia during the Soviet invasion to quell the Prague Spring.
In 1949 he moved to New York City, and in 1954 he became an American citizen.
Married for 52 years, he had a son and daughter.
Szulc died of hepatocellular carcinoma and lung cancer, aged 74.
Career
From 1953 to 1972 Szulc was a foreign and Washington correspondent for The New York Times.
On April 6, 1961, nine days before the CIA-supported Bay of Pigs invasion, Szulc wrote a Times article stating that an invasion of Cuba was "imminent." Before its publication, President Kennedy became aware of the article and personally telephoned the Times’ publisher. The Times yielded to the President’s demand that the story be reduced in prominence and detail.
Awards
Szulc was a Knight of the French Légion d’honneur.
Books
Pope John Paul II: The Biography
Chopin in Paris: The Life and Times of the Romantic Composer
The Secret Alliance: The Extraordinary Story of the Rescue of the Jews Since World War II
Fidel: A Critical Portrait
To Kill The Pope : An Ecclesiastical Thriller
Twilight of the Tyrants
The Cuban Invasion
The Winds of Resolution
Dominican Diary
Latin America
The Bombs of Palomares
Portrait of Spain
Czechoslovakia Since World War II
Innocents at Home
Compulsive Spy: The Strange Career of E. Howard Hunt
The Illusion of Peace: Foreign Policy in the Nixon Years, Viking, 1978
