Journalist, born in Avon, Connecticut, USA. A self-described New Deal liberal, he wrote a widely syndicated political column with his brother, Joseph Alsop. Later a columnist for Newsweek, he wrote Stay of Execution (1973) about his final battle with leukaemia.
Stewart Johonnot Oliver Alsop (17 May 1914 – 26 May 1974) was an American newspaper columnist and political analyst.
His brother was Joseph Alsop, also a columnist and analyst, and power broker in the Kennedy era.
Stewart Alsop was a columnist for the New York Herald Tribune from 1945 to 1954, the Saturday Evening Post from 1954 to 1968, and Newsweek from 1968 to 1974.
He published several books, including a "sort of memoir" of his battle with an unusual form of leukemia, Stay of Execution.
His son is investor and pundit Stewart Alsop II.
Stewart Alsop, at the end of his battle with cancer, requested that he be given something other than morphine to deal with the pain.
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