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About Eddy Gilmore
- Eddy Gilmore (May 28, 1907 – October 6, 1967) was a newspaper reporter.
- He won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize in Telegraphic Reporting-International.
- Gilmore covered the funerals of Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin.
- He was born in Selma on May 28, 1907.
- 21 years later, in 1928, Gilmore graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology, having previously attended Washington and Lee University.
- The next year, he was hired by the Atlantic Journal, where he would work until 1932.
- That year Gilmore left to work for The Washington Daily News.
- After three years, the Associated Press hired him, and after being assigned to Washington, D.C., from 1942–43, Gilmore was chief of AP operations in Russia.
- While there, he won his Pulitzer Prize for an interview with Joseph Stalin.
- Gilmore fell in love with Tamara Kolb-Chernashova (a ballet dancer) while there, and began to attempt to marry her.
- The Soviet Union resisted the marriage and it was not until Wendell Willkie intervened on their behalf that they were allowed to marry in 1950.
- Gilmore left Russia in 1953 and spent the majority of the rest of his career in London.
- He died of a heart attack on October 6, 1967.
- The film Never Let Me Go is based on Gilmore's romance with Tamara Kolb-Chernashova.
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