Homer Bigart
Homer William Bigart (October 25, 1907 – April 16, 1991) was an American reporter who worked for the New York Herald Tribune from 1929 to 1955 and for The New York Times from 1955 to his retirement in 1972. He was considered a "reporter's reporter"[1] and an "enduring role model."[2] He won two Pulitzer Prizes as a war correspondent, as well as most of the other major journalism awards.[2][3][4]
Homer William Bigart
October 25, 1907
April 16, 1991 (aged 83)
Personal life[edit]
He divorced his first wife, Alice Veit.
Alice Weel, his second wife, died of cancer in 1969. Alice Weel Bigart was the first woman to write full-time for a US network news program, when she joined CBS's Douglas Edwards and the News in 1948 and later became a producer of 60 Minutes.[11][12] Hélène Montgomery-Moore, the widow of Major Cecil Montgomery-Moore, DFC, funded the Mrs. Cecil Montgomery-Moore Scholarship for journalism, in memory of Alice Weel Bigart.
Bigart retired in 1973 and died in 1991 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, of cancer.[2] He was survived by his third wife, Else Holmelund Minarik, a writer of children's books.