Background
Browne was born and raised in New York City. His mother was a Quaker with fervently anti-war opinions, his father a Roman Catholic and an architect.
(Pp. xiii, (1), 284; 27 black-and-white photos. Publisher'...)
Pp. xiii, (1), 284; 27 black-and-white photos. Publisher's original pale green cloth, lettered in brown on the spine and front cover, color pictorial dust jacket with photo of a monk Buddhist self-immolating himself on the front dust jacket panel, 8vo. The author provides an analysis of the Communist Guerrilla Campaign in Vietnam. Brown was co-winner of The Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1964 for his coverage of the Vietnam War. The preface is written by Henry Cabot Lodge. No ownership marks and few signs of use.
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Browne was born and raised in New York City. His mother was a Quaker with fervently anti-war opinions, his father a Roman Catholic and an architect.
Browne attended Friends Seminary, a Quaker school in Manhattan from kindergarten through to twelfth grade. He went to a Quaker college in Pennsylvania and studied chemistry.
Browne"s career in journalism began when he was drafted during the Korean War, and assigned to the Pacific edition of the Stars and Stripes where he worked for two years. He worked for the Middletown Times Herald-Record, then joined the Associated Press (Associated Press), working in Baltimore from 1959 to 1961, at which point he was made chief correspondent for Indochina. On June 11, 1963 he took his famous photograph of the death of Thich Quang Duc.
He worked for American Broadcasting Company television for about a year but became dissatisfied with television journalism.
He worked freelance for several years, and did a year"s fellowship at Columbia University with the Council on Foreign Relations. In 1968, he joined The New York Times, and in 1972 became its correspondent for South America.
Before becoming a journalist Browne worked as a chemist, and in 1977, he became a science writer, serving as a senior editor for Discover. He returned to the Times in 1985.
He covered the Persian Gulf War in 1991.
Browne died on Monday August 27, 2012, of complications from Parkinson"s disease. He was 81.
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Served with Army of the United States, 1956-1958. Member of Sigma Xi (honorary).
Married Huynh thi Le Lieu, July 18, 1966.