Paul Ghali was born in Avignon, France in 1906. No biographical data is available before he joined the staff of the Chicago Daily News in 1939, serving for more than thirty years with the Paris Bureau. When France fell in 1940, Ghali moved from Paris to Vichy, and in 1942, to Bern, Switzerland where he remained through 1944(?). In 1945, Ghali returned to Paris where he wrote daily news stories concerning political, social and other news events until 1969.
Ghali was a witness to the hanging of Benito Mussolini by Italian partisans on 28 April 1945. Shortly thereafter, he obtained from Countess Edda Ciano, Mussolini's daughter, the diaries of her husband, who had been Italy's Foreign Minister during World War II. In 1946, Ghali was sent to Iran when Truman was pressing the U.S.S.R. to comply with its undertaking to withdraw troops from the province of Azerbaijan.
In 1961, Ghali married Bernadette Baume; they had no children. He died on 4 August 1970 in Paris.
