Thompson, Dorothy

Thompson, Dorothy

Dorothy Thompson, 1934.

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(born July 9, 1893, Lancaster, N.Y., U.S.—died Jan. 30, 1961, Lisbon, Port.) U.S. journalist. After World War I she became a freelance correspondent in Europe. Her reporting on the Nazis so infuriated Adolf Hitler that in 1934 she became the first U.S. correspondent expelled from Germany. Her column “On the Record” was exceedingly popular and was syndicated from 1941 to 1958 in as many as 170 daily newspapers. Her many books include I Saw Hitler! (1932), Refugees (1938), Let the Record Speak (1939), and The Courage to Be Happy (1957). From 1928 to 1942 she was married to the novelist Sinclair Lewis.

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Thompson, Dorothy (1894–1961) journalist; born in Lancaster, N.Y. A foreign correspondent in Vienna and Berlin during the 1920s, she later wrote a syndicated column (1936–57) and espoused vehemently anti-Nazi views prior to World War II. Her books include New Russia (1928) and Let the Record Speak (1939). She was married to Sinclair Lewis from 1928 to 1942.