Stephen Bonsal

Stephen Bonsal (March 29, 1865 – June 8, 1951) was an American journalist, war correspondent, author, diplomat, and translator, who won the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for History.

In 1891-1896, Bonsal served as secretary and chargé-d'affaire of the US diplomatic missions in Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo.

[1] During World War I, Bonsal served in the American Expeditionary Forces with the rank of lieutenant colonel.

[3] Unfinished Business (1944), a diary describing his experiences during the Paris Peace Treaty negotiations and all the Allied infighting and waxing lyrical about the plight of the wounded veterans and their families, won him the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for History.

[4] "No one else has presented the plight of the plain people of Europe, in relation to the strained secrecy of the Conference, and few have written of their agony as does Colonel Bonsal in terms so hardheaded and so poignant," Time magazine reported on his death.

The United States–Mexico Commission. Standing from left to right are: Stephen Bonsal, Attache of the State Department and Advisor to the American Commission; American Secretary of State Robert Lansing ; Eliseo Arredondo , the Mexican ambassador designate, and Leo Stanton Rowe , the Secretary to the American Commission. Sitting from left to right are John Mott of New York City ; Judge George Gray of Wilmington, Delaware ; Secretary of the Interior Franklin Knight Lane ; Luis Cabrera Lobato , chairman of the Mexican delegation and Secretary of the Treasury of Mexico, Alberto J. Pani , President of the National Railways of Mexico; and Ignacio Bonillas , Minister of Communications and Public Works.. The image was taken at the Biltmore Hotel in New York City on September 9, 1916.