Ralph Graves (writer)
Ralph Graves ( born October 17, 1924 in Washington DC, † June 10, 2013 in New York City ) was an American reporter, editor and author.
Life and work
His parents are Elizabeth and Ralph Graves. His father was the founding editor of the magazine National Geographic. He died when Ralph was a child.
Later, Ralph's mother Francis Sayre, the last American High Commissioner of the Philippines to marry. The family lived during this time in the American Embassy. On Christmas Eve 1941, Ralph and his family were evacuated and taken to the headquarters of General Douglas MacArthur in Corregidor, where they lived in bunkers until they could flee to Australia in 1942.
Ralph Graves closed in 1943 during the Second World War the United States Army Air Force. 1945 Ralph left the army as a sergeant.
Graves then went to Williams College and then Harvard University, where he graduated in 1948.
From 1948 to 1959 Graves worked as a writer and reporter for Life magazine. Then Ralph worked until 1972 in Life as a publisher and as editorial director. Graves was then Editor and Director of Time.
In 1950 he married Patricia Mons. Until the divorce went out of the marriage produced two children. 1958 married Eleanor Graves Mackenzie. The two also had two children.
Ralph Graves lived in New York City and had his second home in Sarasota, Florida.
On June 10, 2013 Graves died at the age of 88 of kidney failure at his home in Manhattan.