Alva Johnston (1888–1950) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, and biographer.
He started out at the Sacramento Bee in 1906. From 1912-1928, he wrote for The New York Times and from 1928-1932 for the New York Herald Tribune. From 1932 until his retirement, he wrote articles for The Saturday Evening Post and The New Yorker[1] magazines. He won the Pulitzer in 1923 for articles he wrote during a convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1922.[2]