Ted Morgan was the pen name of Sanche de Gramont, a French-American author, journalist, and historian. He became a U.S. citizen in 1977, formally changing his name to Ted Morgan, an anagram of de Gramont. Morgan won the Pulitzer Prize for Reporting in 1961 for his coverage of the death of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba. He was a prolific biographer, writing acclaimed works on figures such as Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William S. Burroughs.