Jump to content
 







Main menu
   


Navigation  



Main page
Contents
Current events
Random article
About Wikipedia
Contact us
Donate
 




Contribute  



Help
Learn to edit
Community portal
Recent changes
Upload file
 








Search  

































Create account

Log in
 









Create account
 Log in
 




Pages for logged out editors learn more  



Contributions
Talk
 



















Contents

   



(Top)
 


1 Early life and education  





2 Career  





3 Personal life  





4 Selected bibliography  





5 References  





6 External links  














Ralph G. Martin






العربية
Deutsch
مصرى
 

Edit links
 









Article
Talk
 

















Read
Edit
View history
 








Tools
   


Actions  



Read
Edit
View history
 




General  



What links here
Related changes
Upload file
Special pages
Permanent link
Page information
Cite this page
Get shortened URL
Download QR code
Wikidata item
 




Print/export  



Download as PDF
Printable version
 
















Appearance
   

 






From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 


Ralph G. Martin
Martin being kissed at Porto Farina during the Battle of Tunisia
Born

Ralph Martin Goldberg


March 4, 1920
DiedJanuary 9, 2013 (aged 92)
EducationUniversity of Missouri (BA)
Occupation(s)Writer, journalist
SpouseMarjorie
Children3

Ralph G. Martin (March 4, 1920 – January 9, 2013) was an American journalist who authored or co-authored about thirty books,[1] including popular biographies of recent historical figures, among which, Jennie, a two-volume (1969 and 1971) study of Winston Churchill's American mother, Lady Randolph Churchill, became the most prominent bestseller. Other successful tomes focused on British royal romance (Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson in 1974, as well as Prince Charles and Lady Diana in 1985) and on the Kennedy family (John F. Kennedy in 1983 and Joseph P. Kennedy in 1995).[2]

Early life and education[edit]

Born in Chicago, Ralph Martin Goldberg was eight years old when his family moved to Brooklyn, and started using the name Ralph G. Martin at an early age. He studied at City College of New York before earning a bachelor's degreeinjournalism from the University of Missouri in 1941.

Career[edit]

Twenty-one years old upon receiving his diploma, he decided to hitchhike and found a newspaper job at Box Elder News Journal which served Brigham City, the county seatofUtah's Box Elder County. In December, following declaration of war in the aftermath of attack on Pearl Harbor, Martin enlisted in the Army and spent the war as a combat correspondent for the Armed Forces newspaper Stars and Stripes and the Army weekly magazine, Yank. In 1944, having interviewed New York City's mayor, Fiorello La Guardia, for Yank, Martin asked La Guardia to perform his marriage ceremony to Marjorie Pastel.[3]

Returning to civilian life in 1945, Martin began working as editor for news and analysis publications Newsweek and The New Republic and became executive editor at decorating and domestic arts magazine House Beautiful. During the months preceding the 1952 and 1956 presidential elections, he served as a member of the campaign staff for the Democratic nominee, Adlai Stevenson.

Upon publication of Seeds of Destruction: Joe Kennedy and His Sons, he was invited for an hour-long conversation with Charlie Rose, broadcast December 8, 1995 on Rose's long-running TV interview program. A clip from the conversation was included on Rose's 2013 year-end show in memoriam of 35 guests who died that year and had been interviewed on his programs broadcast between 1991 and 2009.[4]

Personal life[edit]

Having lived for years in the Connecticut town of Westport, near New York City, Martin moved to the Kendal-on-Hudson retirement community in Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he died at age 92. He and his wife Marjorie had three children.[5]

Selected bibliography[edit]

References[edit]

  • ^ Ralph G. Martin bibliography at Library Thing
  • ^ Fox, Margalit. "Ralph G. Martin, a Best-Selling Biographer, Dies at 92" (The New York Times, January 13, 2013)
  • ^ Charlie Rose: final show of 2013 — in memoriam of 35 former interviewees who died that year Archived 2014-01-06 at the Wayback Machine
  • ^ "Ralph G. Martin obituary", The New York Times, January 13, 2013
  • ^ The Bosses (Kirkus Reviews, October 7, 1964)
  • ^ The Bosses (Political Research Quarterly, September 1965)
  • ^ "Golda: Golda Meir, the Romantic Years" (Kirkus Reviews, November 16, 1998)
  • ^ "Henry and Clare" (Publishers Weekly, July 29, 1991)
  • ^ "Seeds of Destruction" (Publishers Weekly, July 31, 1995)
  • External links[edit]


    Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ralph_G._Martin&oldid=1212028325"

    Categories: 
    1920 births
    2013 deaths
    20th-century American biographers
    20th-century American historians
    American male non-fiction writers
    American political writers
    American male journalists
    University of Missouri alumni
    Historians of the United States
    Writers from Chicago
    People from Westport, Connecticut
    Writers from New York (state)
    21st-century American biographers
    20th-century American male writers
    Historians from Illinois
    American male biographers
    United States Army personnel of World War II
    Hidden categories: 
    Webarchive template wayback links
    Articles with short description
    Short description is different from Wikidata
    Articles with hCards
    Articles with FAST identifiers
    Articles with ISNI identifiers
    Articles with VIAF identifiers
    Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers
    Articles with BNE identifiers
    Articles with BNF identifiers
    Articles with BNFdata identifiers
    Articles with GND identifiers
    Articles with J9U identifiers
    Articles with KBR identifiers
    Articles with LCCN identifiers
    Articles with NLK identifiers
    Articles with NTA identifiers
    Articles with PLWABN identifiers
    Articles with Trove identifiers
    Articles with SNAC-ID identifiers
    Articles with SUDOC identifiers
     



    This page was last edited on 5 March 2024, at 20:29 (UTC).

    Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.



    Privacy policy

    About Wikipedia

    Disclaimers

    Contact Wikipedia

    Code of Conduct

    Developers

    Statistics

    Cookie statement

    Mobile view



    Wikimedia Foundation
    Powered by MediaWiki