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Walter Lord
birth_name
John Walter Lord Jr.
date_of_birth
October 8th, 1917
place_of_birth
Baltimore, Marylane, USA
date_of_death
May 19th, 2002
place_of_death
Manhattan, New York, USA
death_cause
Parkinson's disease
Parents
John Walter Lord Sr. (father)
Henrietta Hoffman (Mother)
Biography[]
Early life[]
Walter Lord was born in Baltimore, Maryland to John Walterhouse Lord and Henrietta (born Hoffman) on October 8, 1917. His father, who was a lawyer, died when Lord was just three years old. His grandfather, Richard Curzon Hoffman, was president of the Baltimore Steam Packet Company ("Old Bay Line") in the 1890s.
In July 1926, at the age of 9, Lord traveled across the Atlantic Ocean, from New York to Cherbourg and Southampton, on the RMS Olympic, Titanic's sister ship. After his secondary studies at Gilman's School in Baltimore, studied history at Princeton University
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Walter Lord: Story-teller or Social Historian?
John Welshman is the author of Churchill’s Children: The Evacuee Experience in Wartime Britain. He is currently working on a book provisionally entitled Titanic: The Last Night of a Small Town (forthcoming, 2012). Below he talks about Walter Lord, who wrote the acclaimed book A Night to Remember about the Titantic. You can read his previous OUPblog posts here.
It was Walter Lord, in A Night to Remember (1955) who described the sinking of the Titanic as ‘the last night of a small town’. Lord had been born on 8 October 1917, in Baltimore, the only son of a prominent lawyer. As a boy, he had enjoyed a transatlantic cruise on the Olympic, during which he had fantasised about what it must have been like to have been aboard the Titanic. He attended private schools in Baltimore, and then read History at Princeton, graduating in 1939. Lord was at the Yale Law School at the outbreak of the Second World War. He then went to work for the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency, first as a code clerk in
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Walter Lord
American author (1917-2002)
For the English footballer, see Walter Lord (footballer).
John Walter Lord Jr. (October 8, 1917 – May 19, 2002) was an American author, lawyer, copywriter and popular historian best known for his 1955 account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, A Night to Remember.
Biography
Early life
Lord was born in Baltimore, Maryland to John Walter Lord Sr. and Henrietta MacTier (Hoffman) Lord on October 8, 1917. His father, who was a lawyer, died when Lord was just three years old. Lord's grandfather, Richard Curzon Hoffman, was president of the Baltimore Steam Packet Company ("Old Bay Line") steamship firm in the 1890s.[2]
In July 1925, at the age of 7, Lord traveled across the Atlantic Ocean with his mother and sister, from New York to Cherbourg and Southampton, on the RMS Olympic,[3] the Titanic's sister ship.[4] Like many other boys who attended high school at Baltimore's Gilman School, he spent his summers at Hyde Bay Camp for Boys at Hyde Bay in Cooperstown, New York,[5]
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