Russell Owen

Russell D. Owen (January 8, 1889 – April 3, 1952) was an American journalist employed by The New York Times.

Life

Born 1889 in Chicago, Owen worked for The Sun of New York City from 1906 to 1920. He and Ethel J. McGregor married in 1913. She died in 1948. They had one daughter. He submitted graphic radio dispatches that were printed in many newspapers and won the annual Pulitzer Prize for Reporting in 1930 citing the 1929 portion of that work. He also appeared in the documentary film With Byrd at the South Pole (Paramount, 1930). His book about the expedition was published in 1934, entitled South of the Sun, and he wrote two more polar books later.

Books

South of the Sun (The John Day Company, 1934) (some edition, ) Antarctic Ocean (McGraw-Hill, 1941) The Conquest of the North and South Poles: adventures of the Peary and Byrd expeditions (Random House, 1952), illustrated by Lynd Ward