Alistair Cooke: Alistair Cooke. Writer: America. British-born American journalist and broadcaster. Cooke was born in Salford, Manchester: his father was an iron-fitter and Methodist lay-preacher. He grew up in Blackpool where his parents ran a guest house. Here he first came into contact with Americans, in the form of GIs on their way to fight in World War One. He won a scholarship to Jesus College, Cambridge, where he studied English. A...
Known For: America (Writer), Masterpiece (Self - Host), Stingers (S.O.G.), The Three Faces of Eve (Narrator)