Marion Merriman, Warren Lerude

American Commander in Spain: Robert Hale Merriman and the Abraham Lincoln Brigade

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Battle Born
• Verlag: University of Nevada Press
• First Edition
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781948908740
• ISBN-10: 1948908743
• Artikelnr.: 59295023

Autorenporträt

Marion Stone Merriman Wachtel was born in Santa Barbara, California in l909 and died in Palo Alto, California  in l991.  Marion married Robert Hale Merriman on their graduation day in  l932 from the University of Nevada, Reno, and served with him in the Abraham Lincoln  Battalion  as he commanded American volunteers in the Spanish Civil War.  Following Bob's presumed death, (reported lost in battle in l938), Marion, in l939,  married Emil Wachtel, a San Francisco attorney who shared her life-long dedication as an advocate for freedom. They are survived by  three sons,  Joseph,  Jeffrey and William Wachtel. She remained active in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade  whose members had served in Spain and was employed as an administrative assistant at Stanford University near their home in Palo Alto, California. Warren Lerude is a 1961 journalism graduate of the University of Nevada in Reno. In l977, he won a Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for editorial writing as editor of the Reno Evening  Gazette and Nevada State Journal.  He also served as publisher.  He is emeritus professor art the Reynolds School of Journalism and author of Robert Laxalt: The Story of a Storyteller and the text of Robert Cameron's Above Tahoe and Reno.  He lives in Reno and San Francisco with this wife Janet and their calico cat Gracie.