The phone rang the other day, and it was Jenny Lawrence calling from her home in New York City. “Walter would have been 92 this week,” she said. The Walter she was referring to was Walter Lord, more ...

Walter Lord, 84, the popular historian and author who brought the skills of a raconteur and a "you are there" ambiance to the writing of history, died of Parkinson's disease May 19 at his home in New ...

Walter Lord, the author whose book “A Night to Remember” is credited with starting the world’s enduring obsession with the sinking of the Titanic, died Sunday in his New York apartment. He was 84. His ...

I will never forget the day four years ago that I talked to the late Titanic historian Walter Lord. I was, and still am working on a book on the sinking and on two prominent men, Major Archibald ...

A hundred years ago this summer, in July 1926, a 9-year-old boy who was about to start his first semester at Gilman School in Baltimore traveled aboard Titanic’s sister ship, Olympic. The inspiring ...

Walter Lord, who has died aged 84, was the author of A Night to Remember, a graphic account of the slow sinking of the Titanic which became an immediate best-seller when it was published in 1955.