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A Short Biography of Eric Sevareid

Author Name:

Eric Sevareid

Born As:

Arnold Eric Sevareid

Other Names:

Born:

26 Nov 1912

Died:

09 Jul 1992




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Journalist                          
Selected works:

Canoeing with the Cree, 1935, reprinted 1968
Not So Wild a Dream - autobiography, 1946, reissued 1976 
In One Ear: 107 Snapshots of Men and Events which Make a Far-Reaching Panorama of the American Situation at Mid-Century - essays - 1952.
Small Sounds in the Night: A Collection of Capsule Commentaries on the American Scene - 1956
This is Eric Sevareid - essays - 1964
With Robert A. Smith - Washington: Magnificent Capital -  1965
With John Case - Enterprise: The Making of Business in America  - 1983.                          
                          
Recipient of the state of North Dakota's Roughrider Award.
1965: New York Newspaper Guild Page One Award
1950: Peabody Award
1964: Peabody Award
1976: Peabody Award
Two-time Emmy Award winner
1981: Harry S Truman Award
Two-time Overseas Press Club Award winner
The United States Postal Service announced that it would honor five journalists of the 20th century times with first-class rate postage stamps, to be issued on Tuesday, April 22, 2008: Martha Gellhorn; John Hersey; George Polk; Rubén Salazar; and Eric Sevareid - October 5, 2007, 

Postmaster General Jack Potter announced the stamp series at the Associated Press Managing Editors Meeting in Washington, D.C.. Sevareid covered World War II, on the fall of France to the Germans. He was a critic of Sen. Joseph McCarthy's anti-communism campaign.                          
Amongst many othert things, Sevareid's work during World War II, with Edward R. Murrow was one of the original Murrow's Boys, and was at the forefront of broadcasting. He was the first to report on the fall of France and the French surrender to Nazi Germany in 1940.