Richard Strout

Richard Lee Strout (March 14, 1898 – August 19, 1990) was an American journalist and commentator. He was national correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor from 1923 and he wrote the "TRB from Washington" column for The New Republic from 1943 to 1983; he collected the best of his columns in TRB: Views and Perspectives on the Presidency (New York: Macmillan, 1979), a book notable for showing that Strout was one of the first observers of the American presidency to express worry about what later scholars and journalists came to call the imperial presidency.

Life

Richard Lee Strout was born in Cohoes, New York, on March 14, 1898, and raised in Brooklyn. He graduated from Harvard University in 1919. He moved to England to work in journalism in 1919, returned to the United States in 1921, and held various newspaper positions for several years before beginning an association with The Christian Science Monitor that was to last until his retirement in 1984. He received a master's degree in economics from Harvard in 1923. He won the George Polk Memorial Award for national reporting in 1958 and a special Pulitzer Prize for Journalism in 1978.[1] The Special Award cited "distinguished commentary from Washington over many years as staff correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor and contributor to The New Republic."[2]

Strout was a Washington resident at age 92, when he died there on August 19, 1990, eleven days after hospitalization following a fall.[1]

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References
  1. Joan Cook (August 21, 1990). "Richard Strout, 'TRB' Columnist And Capital Reporter, Dies at 92". The New York Times.
  2. "Special Awards and Citations". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-12-07.
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