Bruce cook biography

American novelist

For the Australian cricketer, see Bruce Cook (cricketer).

Bruce Alexander Cook ( – November 9, ) was an American journalist and author who also wrote under the pseudonym Bruce Alexander, creating historical novels about a blind 18th-century Englishman and also a 20th-century Mexican-American detective.

Biography

Cook was born in in Chicago. His family moved often as a child, his father being a train dispatcher with frequent new assignments. He earned a degree in literature from Loyola University (Chicago).^[1]

His first wife was Catherine Coghlan, with whom he had three children, Catherine (Katy), Bob, and Ceci.

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He married concert violinist Judith Aller in ^[1][2]

He served as a translator in the U.S. Army in Frankfurt, Germany, in the late s, and also did public relations work. He joined the editorial staff of the National Observer in Washington D.C.

in , and covered movies, books, and music. When