Marguerite Higgins Hall (September 3, 1920 – January 3, 1966) was an American reporter and war correspondent. Higgins covered World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War, and in the process advanced the cause of equal access for female war correspondents. [1]

2023年11月1日 · Higgins was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for foreign correspondence. She helped to change war reporting - both what kind of stories journalists were filing and by...

2024年3月24日 · Fierce Ambition, the life story of American war correspondent Marguerite Higgins, sounds a little hyperbolic as a title. A woman doesn’t need to be ferocious to succeed in the masculine world of covering armed conflict.

Higgins was the only woman among six reporters honored in 1951 for covering the Korean War. The Pulitzer jury noted: 'She is entitled to special consideration by reason of being a woman, since she had to work under unusual dangers.'

2023年10月21日 · In a new biography, Fierce Ambition: The Life and Legend of War Correspondent Maggie Higgins, Jennet Conant uncovers the best and worst of an exceptional reporter who led a glamorous, swashbuckling life with its full share of mistakes, triumphs, broken hearts, and tragedy.

Maggie Higgins is an emerging multi-media artist working and living out of Saint John, New Brunswick. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Distinction from Mount Allison University.

2020年7月15日 · Marguerite “Maggie” Higgins wasn’t America’s first female war correspondent. Legendary journalist and novelist Martha Gellhorn (who was also Ernest Hemingway’s third wife) had covered conflicts all over the world in her 60-year career.

Marguerite Higgins catapulted to journalistic fame with her dramatic account of the liberation of Dachau at the end of World War II. Brash, beautiful, ruthlessly competitive, and sexually adventurous, she forced her way to the front despite being told the combat zone was no …

2023年10月31日 · Marguerite Higgins catapulted to journalistic fame with her dramatic account of the liberation of Dachau at the end of World War II. Brash, beautiful, ruthlessly competitive, and sexually adventurous, she forced her way to the front despite being told the combat zone was no place for a woman.