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Ernie Pyle and Geraldine S. Pyle Signatures

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:15.00 USD Estimated At:60.00 - 80.00 USD
Ernie Pyle and Geraldine S. Pyle Signatures
<B>Ernie Pyle and Geraldine S. Pyle Signatures</B></I> clipped, mounted on stiff card stock with a brief biographical sketch of Ernie Pyle. Pyle (1900-1945) was an American journalist who wrote as a roving correspondent for the Scripps Howard newspaper chain from 1935 until his death in 1945. His articles, about the out-of-the-way places he visited and the people who lived there, were told in a folksy style much like a personal letter to a friend. He enjoyed a loyal following in as many as 200 newspapers. In the mid- to late-1930s, Pyle wandered around the country in his car, writing columns about the unusual places and people he met in his ramblings. Select columns were later compiled and published in <I>Home Country.</B></I> With the entry of the U.S. into World War II, Pyle became a war correspondent, applying his intimate style to the war. Instead of the movements of armies or the activities of generals, Pyle generally wrote from the perspective of the common soldier, an approach that won him not only further popularity but also the Pulitzer Prize in 1944. His wartime writings are preserved in three books, <I>Brave Men, Here is Your War,</B></I> and <I>Ernie Pyle in England.</B></I> On April 18, 1945 Pyle died on Ie Shima, an island off Okinawa Honto, as the result of machine gun fire from an enemy sniper position. Very fine.<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Flat Material, Small (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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