Paul Deutschman


Paul Deutschman was an American writer and journalist born in the Bronx. His parents were David Deutschman, M.D. and Rose Hall Deutschman, DDS, both Jewish immigrants from Russia. His mother was among the first women to graduate from Columbia School of Dentistry. His father was a founder of Bronx Hospital. Paul Deutschman attended Cornell University and was graduated from New York University with a B.S. in political science.

Life and career

His first marriage to Louise Tolliver Deutschman ended in divorce. Their daughter, Deborah Elliott Deutschman is a poet and fiction writer. In 1970 he married Regina Ryan, then an editor at Knopf. A veteran of World War II, who took part in the initial American invasion of North Africa in 1942, began writing about what he saw in the aftermath of the battles. An officer, Bill Monroe, the broadcaster, sent it on to Life Magazine, where it was published under the title "After the Battles," the first eyewitness account of the effects of the Allied bombing on civilian life. Deutschman then joined YANK Magazine, the U.S. Army Weekly, and continued to write articles for LIFE as a corporal, capturing the GI point of view.
On his discharge, he joined Life Magazine as a foreign news editor and writer.

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