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American journalist

Louis Fischer (29 February 1896 – 15 January 1970) was an American journalist.

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Among his works were a contribution to the ex-communist treatise The God that Failed (1949), The Life of Mahatma Gandhi (1950), basis for the Academy Award-winning film Gandhi (1982), as well as a Life of Lenin, which won the 1965 National Book Awardin History and Biography.^[1]

Biography

Early life

Louis Fischer, the son of a fish peddler, was born in Philadelphia on 29 February 1896.

After studying at the Philadelphia School of Pedagogy from 1914 to 1916, he became a school teacher.

In 1917, Fischer joined the Jewish Legion, a military unit based in Palestine.^[2] On his return to the United States, Fischer took up work at a news agency in New York City and met Bertha "Markoosha" Mark (1890-1977).

In 1921, when Bertha went to work in Berlin, Fischer joined her a few months later and began contributing to the New York Even The Life of Mahatma Gandhi: Louis Fischer: 9780006388876 ... WIN