Ernie Pyle Autographs
Ernest Taylor Pyle (August 3, 1900 – April 18, 1945) was an American journalist and war correspondent who is best known for his stories about ordinary American soldiers during World War II. Pyle is also notable for the columns he wrote as a roving human-interest reporter from 1935 through 1941 for the Scripps-Howard newspaper syndicate that earned him wide acclaim for his simple accounts of ordinary people across North America. When the United States entered World War II, he lent the same distinctive, folksy style of his human-interest stories to his wartime reports from the European theater (1942–44) and Pacific theater (1945). Pyle won the Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for his newspaper accounts of "dogface" infantry soldiers from a first-person perspective. He was killed by enemy fire on Iejima (then known as Ie Shima) during the Battle of Okinawa.
At the time of his death in 1945, Pyle was among the best-known American war correspondents. His syndicated column was published in 400 daily and 300 weekly newspapers nationwide. President Harry Truman said of Pyle, "No man in this war has so well told the story of the American fighting man as American fighting men wanted it told. He deserves the gratitude of all his countrymen."
Ernest "Ernie" Taylor Pyle was born on August 3, 1900, on the Sam Elder farm near Dana, Indiana, in rural Vermillion County, Indiana. His parents were Maria (Taylor) and William Clyde Pyle. At the time of Pyle's birth his father was a tenant farmer on the Elder property. Neither of Pyle's parents attended school beyond the eighth grade.
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Traded items with a signature of Ernie Pyle
The most expensive item with a signature of Ernie Pyle (ERNIE PYLE - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 04/08/1941) was sold in November 2025 for $1,114.85 while the cheapest item (FT. HOOD Gen. ANDREW BRUCE Buried ERNIE PYLE Signed Authorization KARL DOENITZ) found a new owner for $5.14 in January 2016. The month with the most items sold (4) was November 2017 with an average selling price of $114.00 for an autographed item of Ernie Pyle. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in November 2025 with $1,114.85 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $46.00 was January 2019. In average, an autographed item from Ernie Pyle is worth $96.99.
Most recently, these items with a signature of Ernie Pyle were sold on eBay - click here for more items.
| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | Ernest Ernie Pyle Signed Autographed Bank Check - 1930 - RARE! | $190.00 |  |
| Ernest Ernie Pyle Signed Autographed Bank Check - 1930 - RARE! | $190.00 | |
| Ernest Ernie Pyle Signed Autographed Bank Check - 1930 - RARE! | $190.00 | |
| ERNIE PYLE - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 11/10 | $850.00 | |
| ERNIE PYLE - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 11/10 | $850.00 | |
| ERNIE PYLE - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 11/10 | $850.00 | |
| ERNIE PYLE - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 04/08/1941 | $1,114.85 | |
| ERNIE PYLE - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 04/08/1941 | $1,114.85 | |
| ERNIE PYLE - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 04/08/1941 | $1,114.85 | |
| ERNIE PYLE - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 9/6 | $764.85 | |
| ERNIE PYLE - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 9/6 | $764.85 | |
| ERNIE PYLE - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 9/6 | $764.85 | |
| Rare Ernie Pyle Signed Letter - Certified and Encapsulated by PSA/DNA | $375.00 | |
| Rare Ernie Pyle Signed Letter - Certified and Encapsulated by PSA/DNA | $375.00 | |
| Rare Ernie Pyle Signed Letter - Certified and Encapsulated by PSA/DNA | $375.00 | |
