November 1988
Harrison E. Salisbury was a Journalist who wrote about major world events for United Press International and the New York Times and in numerous books, including American in Russia and Behind the Lines—Hanoi. Salisbury's accounts of life in the USSR won the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting and his reports from Hanoi in 1966, contradicting U.S. claims of bombing success in Vietnam, received considerable attention. His many books include The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad; Black Night, White Snow: Russia's Revolutions 1905-1917; Without Fear or Favor: The "New York Times" and Its Times; and The New Emperors. Salisbury's autobiographical works are Journey for Our Times and A Time of Change. (deceased 4/5/93)
