Walter Lord was an American author, best known for his documentary-style non-fiction account "A Night to Remember", about the sinking of the RMS "Titanic". Lord was born in Baltimore, Maryland to John Walterhouse and Henrietta Hoffman. His father was a lawyer who died when Walter was just three years old. Following high school at Baltimore's Gilman School, he studied history at Princeton University, graduating in 1939. Wikipedia
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Born in Baltimore, Walter Lord was the only son of John Walterhouse Lord, a prominent lawyer, and the former Henrietta Hoffman. He attended private schools in Baltimore and graduated in 1939 from Princeton University, where he majored in history. Mr. Lo www.titanic1.org/people/walter-lord.asp