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.
Early life and education
[edit | edit source]Strout was born in Cohoes, New York, on March 14, 1898, and was raised in Brooklyn. He graduated from Harvard University in 1919.
Career
[edit | edit source]In 1919, he moved to England to work in journalism before returning to the United States in 1921, and held various newspaper positions for several years before beginning an association with The Christian Science Monitor, where he worked 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] In 1973, Strout received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.[3]
Death
[edit | edit source]Strout was a resident of Washington, D.C., where e died there on August 19, 1990, eleven days after being hospitalized for a fall.[1]
References
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- ^ "Special Awards and Citations". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-12-07.
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- Other sources
- New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors
- Richard Strout Library of Congress Papers Collection
- Biographical Dictionary of American Newspaper Columnists – (Google Books)
External links
[edit | edit source]- Oral history interview with Richard Strout Archived 2013-01-04 at the Wayback Machine at the Truman Library
- Richard Strout at Library of Congress, with 12 library catalog records
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