Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Covering a Coup: Malcolm W. Browne in Saigon

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The first sign of trouble came on a clear Friday afternoon, November 1, 1963. Saigon, South Vietnam’s capital, had been “empty and silent” f...
Friday, June 28, 2024

The Magazine and the Writer: Harper's and John Bartlow Martin

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While living in the Hubbard Woods neighborhood in Winnetka, Illinoi in the early 1940s with his young wife Fran, freelance writer John Bartl...

Death in a Cold Place: Burial on Attu

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To recapture Attu in the Aleutian Islands from the Japanese in June 1943, U.S. military forces suffered extreme casualties, losing 549 dead...
Wednesday, June 26, 2024

The War Horse: Malcolm W. Browne and the Gulf War

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“My God, we’re going to die and I must pray!”   The Saudi taxi driver floored the accelerator and started chanting in Arabic as air-raid sir...
Tuesday, June 18, 2024

William McPherson: The Rise and Fall of a Pulitzer Winner

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The name William McPherson cropped up while I was doing research for my planned biography of journalist and war correspondent Wallace Terry...
Monday, May 13, 2024

Freelance Tips from John Bartlow Martin

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With his ubiquitous horn-rimmed glasses, bow tie, and mild manner, John BartlowMartin looked more like a schoolteacher or a laboratory tech...
Friday, May 10, 2024

John Bartlow Martin: A Writing Life

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During the 1940s and 1950s one name, John Bartlow Martin , dominated the pages of the “big slicks,” mass-circulation magazines, especially t...