Background
Elegant, Robert Sampson was born on March 7, 1928 in New York City. Son of Louis and Lillie Rebecca (Sampson) Elegant.
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An ex-special forces agent and international art-dealer is on the trail of a priceless painting long thought lost. But it is more than just a painting: the Chinese communists are using it as the ingenious means to provoke bloody revolution. By the author of "Dynasty", "Manchu" and "Bianca".
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Elegant, Robert Sampson was born on March 7, 1928 in New York City. Son of Louis and Lillie Rebecca (Sampson) Elegant.
Bachelor of Arts, Univercity Pennsylvania, 1946; diploma proficiency, Institute Far Eastern Langs. and Literature, Yale University, 1948; Master of Arts in Chinese and Japanese, Columbia University, 1950; Master of Science in Journalism, Columbia, 1951.
He spent many years in Asia as a journalist. The Asian settings of all but one of his novels reflect that experience. He covered both the Korean and the Vietnam Wars, as well as four or five lesser conflicts.
His latest novel, Cry Peace, is centered on the Korean War.
Elegant holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania (Bachelor of Arts, Phi Beta Kappa). And Columbia University (Master of Arts, Far Eastern studies, Mississippi journalism, Distinguished Alumnus Award), as well as a diploma of proficiency in Chinese from Yale University.
He has, among other awards, been given four prizes for best interpretation of foreign news by the Overseas Press Club of America. He was shortlisted for a Pulitzer Prize in international reporting three times.
He has been a visiting professor at the University of South Carolina and Boston University.
He has been a fellow of the Washington, District of Columbia American Enterprise Institute, the Berlin, Germany Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Studies), and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. Elegant is the patron of the Manchu Shih-tzu Society of Great Britain. He raises shih-tzu (Chinese lion) dogs and has been a devoted amateur sailor and owner of small craft for 50 years.
He now lives in London and Italy.
He frequently travels mainly to the Far East. He speaks, reads, and writes in Chinese and Japanese, having studied both the classical and modern languages, as well as German, Italian, and some Indonesian.
His articles have been published in hundreds of newspapers and scores of weekly, biweekly, and monthly journals across the world, and his books have been published in a number of languages in 20 countries. She died of cancer January 19, 1999.
Elegant married author and editor Ursula Rosemary Righter (née Douglas) on May 10, 2003 in Italy.
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Served with Army of the United States, 1946-1948. Member Authors League, Phi Beta Kappa. Clubs: Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents (president 1960), Royal Hong Kong Yacht.
Married Moira Clarissa Brady, April 16, 1956. Children: Victoria Ann, Simon David Brady.