University of Wyoming
Interviews -- audio cassettes -- audio tapes.
Paul Deutschman was a foreign correspondent for Life, Newsweek, and The Nation. During World War II, he was stationed in North Africa and kept a diary about the war. Life magazine later published it and it became the first eye witness account of the effects of Allied bombing on civilians. In addition, he wrote for YANK, the U.S. Army Weekly. Deutschman also wrote for popular magazines such as Collier's, Esquire, Harper, and Sports Illustrated. In 1950, he went to Paris to be the Head of Magazine Information for the Marshall Plan, and covered several European countries. In the 1960s, he worked for the Secretary of State as a liaison between the department and national magazines. He wrote one fiction novel titled The Adipose Complex, and was working on a novel about World War II at the time of his death in 2002.
This collection documents Deutschman's career as a freelance writer, foreign correspondent, and U.S. government employee. It contains professional correspondence and memos, 1945-1977, field notebooks, and subject folders with memos, outlines, reports, and secondary material on African and Middle Eastern countries and other topics pertaining to Deutschman's journalistic reporting. There are several boxes of manuscripts, drafts, and outlines for Deutschman's articles and books, including tapes of interviews for his book on Israel. Finally, this collection contains World War II material including Deutschman's diaries, photographs, letters to him in French and Italian, manuscripts for YANK, and African battle maps. Also included is correspondence, newsletters, and photographs from his infantry reunions in the 1980s and 1990s.
There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.
Donor retains copyright.
There are no known other archival collections created by Paul Deutschman at the date of processing.
Partial finding aid available in repository.
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