A. B. MacDonald
Alexander Black MacDonald (May 6, 1871 — April 9, 1942) was an American journalist for the "Kansas City Star" who won a Pulitzer Prize for Reporting in 1931 for "his work in connection with a murder in Amarillo, Texas." On that assignment, he "solved a murder mystery . . . and brought a guilty man to justice." Biography. Macdonald was born in New Brunswick, Canada, the son of Alexander Black Macdonald and Jemima McDonald. He later described his father: Macdonald emigrated to the United States in 1890, and became naturalized as a citizen in 1896. He quickly established himself as reporter , working first for the "Kansas City Times" (1891-1893), then the "Kansas City World" (1893), and the "Kansas City Star" (1894-1920). He took a leave from newspaper reporting to serve on the staff of "Country Gentleman" and "Ladies’ Home Journal" (1920-1928), but returned to the "Kansas City Star" in 1928, and continued there until his death. Earlier, he had been sent to Oklahoma to cover the chase of Henry Starr, "a bandit who rode safely through a surrounding posse because his sweetheart was on the horse with him and the possemen were too gallant to shoot." After he  was assigned to interview evangelist Billy Sunday, he took a leave from the "Star" to go to New York to work as Sunday's publicity agent.