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Walter Lord
Walter Lord was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1917. When he was sju years old, he traveled across the Atlantic on the Titanic’s sister fartyg, the Olympic. He attended Princeton University, where he earned his bachelor’s grad, and then studied lag at Yale University but paused his pursuit of a lag degree to enlist in the US Army after the attack on Pearl Harbor, working as a code clerk in London. After completing his service, he returned to Yale to complete his lag degree. He worked as an editor and copywriter for an advertising agency while pursuing a writing career. Lord wrote a total of 11 books, all of which became bestsellers, primary on subjects related to the history of armed conflict, including works about WWII, the Alamo, and exploration. A Night to Remember, published in 1955, was a tremendous success, and was soon made into a feature rulle. Lord published the sequel to ANight to Remember, entitled The Night Lives On: Thoughts, • John Walter Lord Jr. October 8th, 1917 Baltimore, Marylane, USA May 19th, 2002 Manhattan, New York, USA Parkinson's disease John Walter Lord Sr. (father) Walter Lord was born in Baltimore, Maryland to John Walterhouse Lord and Henrietta (born Hoffman) on October 8, 1917. His father, who was a lawyer, died when Lord was just three years old. His grandfather, Richard Curzon Hoffman, was president of the Baltimore Steam Packet Company ("Old Bay Line") in the 1890s. In July 1926, at the age of 9, Lord traveled across the Atlantic Ocean, from New York to Cherbourg and Southampton, on the RMS Olympic, Titanic's sister ship. • A Night to Remember, written by Walter Lord and published by William Morrow in 1955, is considered the definitive minute-by-minute account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, which plummeted to the bottom of the ocean just under two hours after striking an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40pm on April 14, 1912. In the decades since A Night to Remember was published, ongoing research—including the discovery of the wreckage of the Titanic in 1985—has clarified many of the facts presented in the text, but A Night to Remember stands the test of time, offering a vivid, narrative-style popular history account of one of the most significant disasters in maritime history. Lord wrote and published a sequel, The Night Lives On: New Thoughts, Theories, and Revelations About the Titanic (1987), re-released in 2012 as The Night Lives On: The Untold Stories & Secrets Behind the Sinking of the “Unsinkable Ship”—Titanic. Collectively, the Walter Lord
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