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    Ace for Life: She Showed America the World
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    Ace for Life: She Showed America the World

    By David M. Delo

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    Margaret Bourke-White was the ACE photographer for both FORTUNE and LIFE MAGAZINES between 1929 and 1957. Before she reached 3o years of age, she was rich and famous. She rose to the top of her almost-all male profession: beautiful, focused, and determined. She always got the shot she was after. She was a non-conformist all of her life, with a string of lovers and a string of photographic firsts that included shooting the Russian Five Year Plan in the early 1930s. She became a war photojournalist, shooting the skies as Nazi planes bombed Moscow, and working on front line trenches in four continents during World War II. She was allowed on a live bombing run, she was torpedoed in the Mediterranean, and she spent four years as the wife of author Erskine Caldwell. She also wrote a half-dozen books plus an autobiography.

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    PublisherDavid M. Delo
    Release dateDec 1, 2018
    ISBN9780463868249
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    Ace for Life: She Showed America the World
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    David M. Delo

    Bio of author David M. Delo I’ve never been great at anything, but I have been around and have had as many failures as I have successes. After college, I was a C.I. agent for NATO (US Army) in Europe. Back in the USA, I became an educational administrator for the American Geological Institute, in Washington, D.C.; a systems analyst and V. P. at Levi Strauss & Co. in San Francisco; owner of a guest ranch in Wyoming; a P. R. writer for a university library in Illinois and grants writer for a not-for-profit organization in Montana; owner of a publishing company (Kingfisher Creations) through which I authored 10 books; and a semi-professional photographer for half a century. I have also been an artist since 1993 and I have been bipolar II since the mid-1960s. I guess you could say I have had a colorful life. Since the turn of the century, I have resided within the world of creativity. My books (and paintings) are my children and my heritage. My action-mysteries are based on my years in Europe. My historical novels are all based on places to which I have ventured, and I still love my protagonists with whom I identify–a geologist, an artist, a photographer, and an intrepid explorer of the west.

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