Darwin Porter

Darwin Porter, born September 13, 1937, in Greensboro, North Carolina, is a distinguished American travel writer, celebrity biographer, and novelist with over 50 years in the field, best known for Frommer's guidebooks and controversial Hollywood biographies. A former journalist, he covered Cuban guerrilla training camps in 1960 and interviewed luminaries like Eleanor Roosevelt, Robert Frost, Tennessee Williams, Harry S. Truman, and Lucille Ball. He earned a B.A. from the University of Miami in 1959 and received awards such as the Silver Award from the International Film and Television Festival of New York in 1977.

Greensboro, NC, USA Sep 13, 1937
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