Хорас Норт Каллахан: Жизнь и творчество американского журналиста и историка.

American journalist, historian and scholar

Horace North Callahan (August 7, 1908 – December 20, 2004) was an American journalist, historian and scholar.

Born in Sweetwater, Tennessee, Callahan was educated at the Tennessee Military Institute and the University of Chattanooga, where he graduated cum laude in 1930.

Callahan played the leads in dramatic and musical productions while a student at the University of Chattanooga. He organized a glee club there and appeared on the radio in musical programs, later joining a New York stock company touring the South. Later in little theaters in Tennessee and Texas, he had the leading male roles in the plays, "The Valiant," "First Lady," and the part of Hildy Johnson, the reporter in "The Front Page." But after working for a time as a press representative for the Playwright Company in New York City, he left the theater and pursued his academic and writing career. He had written and directed three plays. Callahan worked as a writer for newspapers in Tennessee and Texas and as New York City correspondent of The Dallas Morning News, eventually writing a syndicated column. His second wife, Helen Pemberton Callahan, died in September 2004. He had two children, a son also named North Callahan and daughter Mary Alice Covington.

The North Callahan Collection is a grouping of works produced by North Callahan throughout the time period 1940–1985 and maintained at the UTC Library of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. The North Callahan Collection includes manuscripts of many of his books, reviews, lecture notes, tests, and related teaching material. There are also photographs, plaques and awards, including photographs with celebrities such as Helen Hayes, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Mickey Rooney. In addition, Dr. Callahan donated over 1100 volumes of books dealing with American history to the library.