Tuohy, William Klaus 1926–

PERSONAL:

Born October 1, 1926, in Chicago, IL; son of John Marshall and Lolita Tuohy; married Johanna Iselin, November 24, 1964; children: Cyril Iselin. Education: Northwestern University, B.S., 1951.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Foreign Editor, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, CA 90053.

CAREER:

San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, CA, 1952-59, began as copy boy, became night city editor; Newsweek, 1959-66, began as associate editor, became foreign correspondent, 1966; Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, CA, Vietnam correspondent, 1966-68, Middle East correspondent in Beirut, Lebanon, 1969-71, bureau chief in Rome, Italy, 1971-77, bureau chief in London, England, 1977—. Military service: U.S. Naval Reserve, active duty, 1944-46.

AWARDS, HONORS:

National Headliner Award, 1965, for Vietnam coverage; Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, 1969, for Vietnam coverage; award from Overseas Press Club of America, 1970, for Middle East coverage.

WRITINGS:

Sicily, Berlitz (Springfield, NJ), 1979.

The Italian Adriatic, Berlitz (Springfield, NJ), 1981.

Dangerous Company: Inside the World's Hottest Trouble Spots with a Pulitzer Prize-winning War Correspondent, Morrow (New York, NY), 1987.

The Bravest Man: Richard O'Kane and the Amazing Submarine Adventures of the USS Tang, Presidio Press/Random House (New York, NY), 2006.

America's Fighting Admirals: Winning the War at Sea in World War II, Zenith Press (St. Paul, MN), 2007.

SIDELIGHTS:

Journalist William Klaus Tuohy has received several awards for international reporting, including two Pulitzer prizes, one for coverage of the Vietnam war. A U.S. Navy veteran who served in the Pacific from 1945 to 1946, Tuohy has written two books with World War II naval themes. The Bravest Man: Richard O'Kane and the Amazing Submarine Adventures of the USS Tang presents the story of submarine skipper O'Kane, winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor. O'Kane set a record for sinking more enemy ships and saving more American pilots than any other officer. On his fifth patrol with the Tang, however, the last of the sub's twenty-four torpedoes circled back and hit the boat. Of the boat's eighty-seven crew members, only nine were still alive after swimming all night without flotation gear. They were picked up by a Japanese destroyer and were subjected to starvation, torture, and slave labor in a POW camp kept secret from the International Red Cross. O'Kane survived, and died in 1994 at age eighty-three. Reviewing the book in Wall Street Journal, Daniel Ford observed that the story is "well worth reading, especially in a winter when the USS O'Kane is on watch in the Arabian Sea, carrying the bravest man's name and legacy into the twenty-first century."

In America's Fighting Admirals: Winning the War at Sea in World War II Tuohy provides what Booklist contributor Roland Green described as a "good popular introduction to the World War II U.S. Navy" and an "honorable tribute to honorable men."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, July, 1987, review of Dangerous Company: Inside the World's Hottest Trouble Spots with a Pulitzer Prize-winning War Correspondent; April 1, 2007, Roland Green, review of America's Fighting Admirals: Winning the War at Sea in World War II, p. 22.

Food Technology, fall, 1988, review of Dangerous Company, p. 771.

Internet Bookwatch, July 1, 2007, "America's Fighting Admirals."

Kirkus Reviews, June 15, 1987, review of Dangerous Company, p. 915.

Library Journal, August, 1987, Daniel Levinson, review of Dangerous Company, p. 121.

Los Angeles Times, December 27, 1987, review of Dangerous Company, p. 9.

Publishers Weekly, June 26, 1987, review of Dangerous Company, p. 64.

Wall Street Journal, December 31, 2001, Daniel Ford, "Audacity and Heroism, Underwater."

Washington Post Book World, August 23, 1987, review of Dangerous Company, p. 5.