Alan Moorehead | |
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Born | Alan McCrae Moorehead 22 July 1910 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
Died | 29 September 1983 London, England, United Kingdom | (aged 73)
Resting place | Hampstead Cemetery |
Education | Scotch College, Melbourne |
Alma mater | University of Melbourne |
Spouse |
Lucy Milner (m. 1940) |
Children | Caroline Moorehead |
Alan McCrae Moorehead, AO, OBE (22 July 1910 – 29 September 1983) was a war correspondent and author of popular histories,[1] most notably two books on the nineteenth-century exploration of the Nile, The White Nile (1960) and The Blue Nile (1962). Australian-born, he lived in England, and Italy, from 1937.