Professions: Foreign correspondent for NBC, CBS and Time magazine; wrote novels and nonfiction books; enlisted in the Army in 1942 and was soon assigned to work in military intelligence for the Office of Strategic Services; began his journalism career writing for the Boston Globe; worked as a correspondent for Time-Life from 1949 to 1954; in 1958 published his first novel, The Mission; two more novels followed: Shalom (1959) and My New-Found Land (1963); in the early 1960s, joined NBC, filing dispatches from the Middle East, North Africa, Cyprus and Vietnam; anchored the KNBC-TV Channel 4 nightly news in Los Angeles in 1967; collaborated with photojournalist Jill Krementz on "The Face of South Vietnam," a nonfiction work that examined the war's impact; next worked for CBS News; in 1974 returned to Time as a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, South Asia and Southeast Asia.
Awards: While stationed in Burma, received a Bronze Star.
Degrees: A.B. Harvard, 1949.
Death: November 17, 2006 at his daughter's home in Santa Monica, CA.
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