Robert Spiers Benjamin

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, an anthology for the Adventurers' Club

As a child, he was a boy scout.[4]

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gollark: That would be an obvious security issue.

References
  1. https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02E6DF1E3AF934A1575AC0A96F9C8B63
  2. https://www.opcofamerica.org/news/2012-citation-recipients
  3. http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3ABenjamin%2C+Robert+Spiers%2C&qt=hot_author
  4. 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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