Harlow Giles Unger | |
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Born | August 3, 1931 |
Education | Taft School |
Alma mater | Yale University California State University |
Occupation | Historian |
Children | Richard |
Harlow Giles Unger (⫽ˈʌŋɡər⫽; born August 3, 1931) is an American author and historian as well as a journalist, broadcaster, and educator, He is the author of many books, including the three-volume Encyclopedia of American Education.
Unger was born on August 3, 1931. He was educated at the Taft School, graduating in 1949. He graduated from Yale College, where he earned a bachelor of arts degree in 1953,[1][2] and he earned a master's degree from California State University.[3]
Unger was a journalist for the New York Herald Tribune Overseas News Service in Paris, and later worked as a free-lance news and features writer for newspapers and magazines in Britain, Canada, and other countries.[4] To his work in newspaper and magazine journalism, he added writing for radio and academics, becoming an on-air commentator in New York for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and an adjunct associate professor of English and journalism at two New York-area colleges.[5]
Unger is a former Distinguished Visiting Fellow in American History at Mount Vernon (2008), and as of 2020 he had written twenty-seven books, including ten biographies of America's founding fathers[6] as well as a biography of statesman Henry Clay.[7]
Unger formerly resided in Paris, France.[3] He now resides in New York City. An avid skier and horseman, he had secondary homes in Chamonix, France, and Jackson Hole, WY. He has one son, Richard C. Unger.[3]