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Name
  
Alva Johnston


Role
  
Journalist

Died
  
November 23, 1950, Bronxville, New York, United States

Books
  
The great Goldwyn, The legendary Mizners

Awards
  
Pulitzer Prize for Reporting

Alva Johnston (August 1, 1888 – November 23, 1950) was an American journalist and biographer who won a Pulitzer Prize for journalism in 1923.

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Biography

Johnston was born in Sacramento, California.

He started out at the Sacramento Bee in 1906. From 1912 to 1928 he wrote for The New York Times, from 1928 to 1932 for the New York Herald Tribune, and then he wrote articles for The Saturday Evening Post and The New Yorker magazines. He won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for Reporting for "his reports of the proceedings of the convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in December, 1922."

He died on November 23, 1950 in Bronxville, New York.

Works

  • The Great Goldwyn (Random House, 1937) — about Samuel Goldwyn
  • The Case of Erle Stanley Gardner (William Morrow, 1947) — originally publ. in The Saturday Evening Post
  • The Legendary Mizners (Farrar, Straus and Young, 1953), illustrated by Reginald Marsh — about Addison Mizner and Wilson Mizner
  • References

    Alva Johnston Wikipedia