Robert Spiers Benjamin
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Robert Spiers Benjamin (17 August 1917 – 20 September 2009) was a 20th-century journalist.[1] He was a founding member of the Overseas Press Club. Following his death, the club named an award in his memory for 'Best reporting in any medium on Latin America'.[2]
He wrote and edited several books[3]
- The Inside Story, about the Overseas Press Club
- The Vacation Guide
- Eye Witness
- I am an American, a symposium of radio interviews with important naturalized Americans. Commissioned by the US Immigration and Naturalization Service
- Call to Adventure: True Tales of Adventures Set Down by the Men who Actually Experienced Them, 1935, an anthology for the Adventurers' Club
As a child, he was a boy scout.[4]
Links
- Obituary by the Overseas Press Club https://www.opcofamerica.org/news/robert-benjamin-last-founding-member-opc-dies
References
- ^ "Paid Notice: Deaths BENJAMIN, ROBERT SPIERS".
- ^ "2012 Citation Recipients". 24 April 2013.
- ^ http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3ABenjamin%2C+Robert+Spiers%2C&qt=hot_author[bare URL]
- ^ Robert Spiers Benjamin, ed., Call to Adventure: True Tales of Adventures Set Down by the Men who Actually Experienced Them. London; Sydney: George G. Harrap & Co., 1935.
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