William Tuohy

William Tuohy is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author who, for most of his career, was a foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times.Cite web | url = http://www.williamtuohy.com/bio.htm | title = William Tuohy biography | work = williamtuohy.com | accessdate = 2007-08-11]

Biography

Tuohy was born and raised in Chicago. From 1944-1946 he served in the U.S. Navy aboard a submarine rescue vessel, the USS "Florikan", toward the end of World War II. After the war he graduated from Northwestern University in 1951 and went to work at the San Francisco Chronicle, first as a copy boy, later as a reporter and editor on the city desk.

He joined "Newsweek" magazine in 1959, covering the 1964 presidential campaign and briefly working as the assistant national editor before beginning his career as a foreign correspondent in Saigon where his work in 1965, as the United States was just entering the Vietnam War won a Headliners Award.

In 1966 Tuohy joined the "Los Angeles Times" as the Saigon Bureau Chief. In 1969 Tuohy won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for his Vietnam War correspondence the previous year. [Cite web | title = Pulitzer Prizes for 1968 | work = Pulitzer.org | url = accessdate = 2007-08-11 | url = http://www.pulitzer.org/cgi-bin/year.pl?type=w&year=1969&FormsButton2=Retrieve] . Tuohy had a lengthy career as a foreign correspondent. He served as Beirut Bureau Chief from 1968-73, Rome Bureau Chief from 1973-1977, London Bureau Chief from 1977-85, Bonn Bureau Chief from 1985-90 and European Security Correspondent from 1990-95. In addition to postings as bureau chief, he covered the Fall of Saigon, the Fall of the Berlin Wall, The Troubles of Northern Ireland, and the first Gulf War.

In 1989, he published a memoir "Dangerous Company, Inside the World’s Hottest Trouble Spots with a Pulitzer Prize-Winning Correspondent". [Cite news | title = Datelines and Deadlines | work = The Washington Post | author = Carl Sessions Stepp | date = 1989-08-23] [Cite news | title = The Foreign Correspondent in Bar and Salon | work = The Los Angeles Times | author = Rick Hertzberg | date = 1989-12-27]

Retirement

Since retiring, Tuohy has written two books of naval history: "The Bravest Man: The Story of Richard O'Kane and U.S. Submariners in the Pacific War" published in 2001 in the U.K. and 2006 in the U.S. Richard O'Kane was the Executive Officer of the USS Wahoo (SS-238) during World War II and later received a Medal of Honor for his service in command of the USS Tang (SS-306).

His second book, "America's Fighting Admirals: Winning the War at Sea in World War II" was published in 2007. The book told the story of the war from the perspective of Navy Admirals such as Marc Mitscher, the commander of the Fast Carrier Task Force and John S. McCain, Sr..

Awards

In addition to the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, Tuohy won the Overseas Press Club award for his reporting from the Middle East in 1969 and won the Best Feature Story award in 2003 from Submarine Review.

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