Charlton Ogburn, Jr.

1911–1998

Charlton Ogburn, Jr., author, State Department official, and naturalist was born March 15, 1911, in Atlanta, Georgia, the only child of Charlton Ogburn, Sr. and Dorothy Stevens Ogburn. He was educated at Harvard University, receiving his S.B. in 1932. He also attended the National War College, completing his studies in 1952. Upon leaving Harvard, he worked for Viking Press, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and, from 1929-1941, the Book of the Month Club, where he served as a reader and reviewer. In 1941 he joined the United States Army, and served in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Ogburn memorialized his tour of duty in Burma in a book entitled Merrill's Marauders, published in 1959, which was later made into a movie by Warner Brothers. From 1946 to 1949, Ogburn worked as a desk officer for the Division of South-East Asian Affairs, and from 1949 to 1957 he worked for the Department of State, holding various posts, including that of Political Advisor to the United States Delegation to the United Nations Security Council's Committee of Good Offices for the Indonesian Dispute. From 1953 to 1957 he served as the Chief of the Division of Research for the Near East, South Asia, and Africa. In 1957 he left the State Department in order to devote his energies to writing full-time. He has written widely, but has concentrated on wildlife and conservation, and on the controversy surrounding the identity of William Shakespeare, continuing the lifelong work of his parents. His ma

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