Richard Strout
{{Short description|American journalist and commentator}}
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
Strout was born in Cohoes, New York, on March 14, 1898, and was raised in Brooklyn. He graduated from Harvard University in 1919.
Career
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.{{cite news|title=Richard Strout, 'TRB' Columnist And Capital Reporter, Dies at 92.|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CEFD8113CF932A1575BC0A966958260|work=The New York Times|author=Joan Cook|date=August 21, 1990}} 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."[http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Special-Awards-and-Citations "Special Awards and Citations"]. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-12-07. In 1973, Strout received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.{{cite web|title= Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement |website=achievement.org|publisher=American Academy of Achievement|url= https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/#public-service}}
Death
Strout was a resident of Washington, D.C., where e died there on August 19, 1990, eleven days after being hospitalized for a fall.
References
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- [http://www.authorandbookinfo.com/ngcoba/st3.htm New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors]
- [https://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/text/strout.html Richard Strout Library of Congress Papers Collection]
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=XSGKylQuBocC&pg=PA314 Biographical Dictionary of American Newspaper Columnists – (Google Books)]
External links
- [http://www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/strout.htm Oral history interview with Richard Strout] at the Truman Library
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Category:American male journalists
Category:20th-century American journalists
Category:Pulitzer Prize winners for journalism
Category:Harvard University alumni
Category:Writers from New York (state)
Category:The Christian Science Monitor people
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