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He is listed in People's Almanac as one of fifteen most eminent linguists in the world and was awarded the Dag Hammarskjöld International Prize for Non-fiction in 1976. He was the grandson of Maximilien Berlitz (Maximilian) who founded the Berlitz Language Schools . He was a magna cum laude graduate from Yale University , and was a brilliant Polyglot and spoke 32 languages. He also spent 13 years on active duty in the U.S. Army, mostly in intelligence. Berlitz married Valerie Seary 1950. He began working for the family language school, The Berlitz School of Languages, during college breaks. The publishing house, which he vice president of, sold, among other things tourist phrase books, pocket dictionaries, several of which he himself authored. Mr. Berlitz also played a key role in developing record and tape language courses. He left the company in the late 1960s, not long after he sold the company to publishing firm Crowell, Collier & Macmillan. He died at the age of 90 at University Hospital in Tamarac, Fla. BOOKS Charles received both praise and criticism for his best known book "The Bermuda Triangle" which sold 20 million copies. Praise: In his books, he suggested various natural causes as potential explanations for phenomena that some had previously labeled unatural. This awarded him a literary award for '''Non-fiction''', but as he himself said with good humour "my critics said I should have received the award for '''fiction''' ", since he sometimes mentions supernatural explanations, even if he disagrees with the supernatural explanations. Criticism: Many of the facts cited in his books are disputed. For example, Larry Kusche found that some ships claimed by Berlitz to have sunk in the Bermuda Triangle sank somewhere else, others did not even exist, and for still others, the weather was not as sunny as Berlitz said. Berlitz books are neutral as to what the true reasons for the phenomena are, and since they describe the phenomena always suggesting natural causes, they are in stark contrast to the later books by Erich Von Däniken , who Berlitz criticized strongly. Anomaly Related
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