Carleton Beals

Carleton Beals
BornNovember 13, 1893
Medicine Lodge, Kansas, U.S.
DiedApril 4, 1979(1979-04-04) (aged 85)
Hartford County, Connecticut, U.S.
EducationUniversity of California, Berkeley
Columbia University
Occupation(s)Journalist, book author, historian, political activist
Notable creditThe only foreign journalist who interviewed General Augusto Sandino during Nicaragua's 1927–33 war against US military occupation
SpouseLilian Beals
RelativesCarrie Nation, grandmother

Carleton Beals (November 13, 1893 – April 4, 1979) was an American journalist, writer, historian, and political activist with a special interest in Latin America.[1] A major journalistic coup for him was his interview with the Nicaraguan rebel Augusto Sandino in February 1928.[2] In the 1920s he was part of the cosmopolitan group of intellectuals, artists, and journalists in Mexico City. He remained an active, prolific, and politically engaged leftist journalist and is the subject of a scholarly biography.[3]

  1. ^ Hilton, Ronald (March 23, 2002). "Carleton Beals". stanford.edu. Retrieved 2009-02-02.
  2. ^ John A. Britton, "Carleton Beals" in Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture vol. 1, p. 315. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1996.
  3. ^ John A. Britton. Carleton Beals: A Radical Journalist in Latin America. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press 1987