Harrison E. Salisbury

Lecture: Witnesses
Journalist Harrison E. Salisbury talks about his career and craft.

From the NYPL Public Programs Brochure for Winter/Spring, 1988:

Few know the modern history, cultures, and peoples of Russia and the Far East as well as Harrison Salisbury, an astute observer, Salisbury has been writing about and traveling in Russia, Siberia, Central and Southeast Asia, Outer Mongolia, China, and Tibet. To C. P. Snow, Salibury's writing is "at the same time realistic, brotherly, and admiring." He won the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting in 1955, and he has written many books, including The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad, The Long March, Orbit of China, and Black Night, White Snow: Russia's Revolutions, 1905-1917. The New York Times has taken him from foreign correspondent to editor of the Op-Ed page. His vigor continues to fuel his writing; this spring, the second volume of his memoirs, A Time of Change, will be published by Harper and Row.

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