Name Dan Kurzman | Role Journalist | |
Died 2010, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States Awards National Jewish Book Award for Biography Books A Special Mission, Fatal Voyage: The Sinki, No greater glory, Left to Die: The Tragedy, Bravest Battle |
Dan Halperin Kurzman (27 March 1922, San Francisco – 12 December 2010, Manhattan), was an American journalist and writer of military history books.
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Early life
Dan Kurzman was born in San Francisco, the son of Joseph and Lillian Kurzman. He studied at the University of California in Berkeley, served U.S. Army from 1943 to 1946, and completed his studies at Berkeley with a Bachelor degree in political science.
Career
In the early 1950s, he worked in Europe and in Israel for American newspapers and news agencies and was then correspondent of the NBC News in Jerusalem. In 1960 he published his first political book, a biography of the Japanese Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi. In the 1960s, Kurzman worked as a foreign policy correspondent for the Washington Post. In 1965 he received the George Polk Award for external reporting. After the end of the sixties, the Washington Post had left, he devoted himself to researching and writing Modern History, especially military history non-fiction. He is also a recipient of the Cornelius Ryan Award. A Polish-Israeli research team have suggested that much of what Kurzman wrote about the Warsaw Ghetto was actually tainted by the personal testimony of unreliable Polish witnesses, most notably, Henryk Iwanski, who deliberately magnified their own role in wartime Warsaw. Dariusz Libionka and Laurence Weinbaum suggest that Kurzman accepted the account of Iwanski who presented himself as hero, uncritically, and that Iwanski's testimony should be treated as confabulation.
At the end of his life Dan Kurzman lived in North Bergen (New Jersey) with his wife Florence. He died December 12, 2010 at the age of 88, in Manhattan. His wife died the previous year.