Alden Hatch (1898–1975)
Author of A Man Named John: The Life of Pope John XXIII
About the Author
Alden Hatch spent much of his life partially disabled by tuberculosis, but he still enjoyed a lifetime of travel and activity. Over the course of his life, he met and interviewed dozens of world leaders, movie stars, and politicians, and became friends with many of them. He wrote more than forty show more books, thirty-six of them biographies, including books on Dwight Eisenhower, Charles de Gaulle, and Woodrow Wilson. Hatch died in 1975 in Sarasota, Florida. show less
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- Canonical name
- Hatch, Alden
- Legal name
- Hatch, Alden R.
- Birthdate
- 1898-09-26
- Date of death
- 1975
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Places of residence
- New York, New York, USA
- Occupations
- biographer
- Short biography
- Alden R. Hatch (September 16, 1898 - February 1, 1975) was an American writer. He was the son of May D. Hatch and her husband Frederic H. Hatch, owner of a successful Wall Street stock brokerage firm he founded in 1888. Alden's brother, Eric S. Hatch, was a writer on the staff of The New Yorker and a novelist and screenwriter best known for his book 1101 Park Avenue that became a hit film under the title My Man Godfrey.
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