Background
Stevens, Edmund William was born on July 22, 1910 in Denver, Colorado, United States. Son of Edmund William and Florence (Ballance) Stevens.
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Stevens, Edmund William was born on July 22, 1910 in Denver, Colorado, United States. Son of Edmund William and Florence (Ballance) Stevens.
Bachelor, Columbia University, 1932. Postgraduate government international law, Columbia University, 1933. Student Russian, Moscow University, 1934.
Translator Moscow public house, 1935-1937, American-Russian Chamber of Commerce. Foreign correspondent Manchester Guardian Daily Herald, London, 1937-1939, Reuters, summer 1938. Moscow representative Cunard-White Star Line, 1938.
Foreign correspondent Christian Science Monitor, Riga, Latvia, 1939. Covered Finnish War, invasion of Norway, Rumania, 1940, Italo-Greek War, 1940-1941. Ethiopian campaign with Wingate, Haile Selassie, 1941.
With British 8th Army in Western Desert, 1942-1943. Accompanied Churchill and Harriman to Moscow as special adviser to General Russell Maxwell, August 1942, Wendell Willkie through Mideast, 1942. War correspondent in Russia, 1943-1944.
Moscow correspondent Christian Science Monitor, 1946-1949. Chief Mediterranean News Bureau, Headquarters in Rome, 1949-1955. China correspondent Look magazine, 1954-1956.
Chief Moscow bureau Time, Inc., 1956-1963. Syndicated columnist Newsday. Also special correspondent Soviet affairs Saturday Evening Post, 1963-1968.
Correspondent Sunday Times, London, 1964, London Times, 1973, Giornale nuovo, Milan, die Weltwoche, Zurich, 1978. Radio reporter NBC News, 1971. Senior member, dean of foreign correspondence in Moscow for London Times, Giornale, Milan, Italy, other papers.
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Member Overseas Press Club, Associazione della Stampa Estera (Rome), Delta Phi.
Married Nina Andreyevna Bondarenko, March 14, 1935. Children: Edmund, Anastasia (Marchesa Ferrari di Collesape).