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Trudy Hall '62 with Charles W. Guswelle '51, January 1962 |
Charles Gusewelle Biography Notes C.W. Gusewelle has written for The Kansas City Star for more than 40 years, having started as a general assignment reporter shortly after graduating from Westminster College in 1955. He became an editorial writer on foreign affairs topics in 1966, foreign editor in 1976, and associate editor and columnist in 1979. Today, his thrice-weekly column is distributed nationally by the New York Times News Service. Besides his newspaper reporting and commentary, Gusewelle's articles and short fiction have appeared in Harper's, American Heritage, The Paris Review and many other magazines and journals. He was awarded The Paris Review's Aga Khan Prize for Fiction in 1977. In 1978, his short story, "Horst Wessel," was selected for inclusion in the Pushcart Prize III anthology of American writing. In 1985, his essay, "The Winds of Ruin," was included in the anthology A Sense of History: The Best Writing from the Pages of American Heritage. He is the author of six books. |
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In 1979, Gusewelle was the subject of one of three 30-minute films focusing on Midwestern writers in a series sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The film included an interview and readings of his works. Gusewelle hasn't spent all of his time behind a desk writing, however. From 1956 to 1958, he was a 1st lieutenant Infantry, 82nd Airborne Division. He has traveled extensively on assignment for The Star in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, West Europe, East Europe and the former Soviet Union. In 1971, he was one of two U.S. delegates to a multi-national symposium in London on the Middle East that was sponsored by the Ford Foundation. In 1991, Gusewelle was the American leader of a joint U.S. - Russian 2,800-mile expedition from the source to the mouth of the Lena River in Siberia. He wrote, produced and narrated a 90-minute television documentary of the journey, entitled "A Great Current Running." Gusewelle is married to the former Katie Jane Ingels of Jefferson City, Mo. They have two daughters. He is listed in Who's Who in America.
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