Background
Apple,, R.W. was born on November 20, 1934 in Akron, Ohio, United States. Son of Raymond Walter and Julia (Albrecht) Apple.
Apple,, R.W. was born on November 20, 1934 in Akron, Ohio, United States. Son of Raymond Walter and Julia (Albrecht) Apple.
Student, Princeton University, 1956. AB, Columbia University, 1961. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Denison University, 1989.
Doctor of Laws, Knox College, 1993. Doctor of Laws, Gettysburg College, 1995. Doctor of Laws, Marquette University, 2000.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), University of the South, 2004.
Reporter Wall St. Journal, 1956-1957, 59-61. Writer, correspondent NBC News, 1961-1963. Member staff New York Times, from 1963, Albany bureau chief, 1964-1965, Vietnam correspondent, 1965-1966, Vietnam bureau chief, 1966-1968, Africa bureau chief, 1969, national political correspondent, 1970-1976, London bureau chief, 1977-1980, 81-85, Moscow bureau chief, 1980-1981, Washington bureau chief, 1992-1997, chief Washington correspondent, 1985-1997, chief correspondent, 1998—2006.
Associate edition Theodore H. White Memorial lecturer Harvard University, 1989, Joe Alex Morris Junior Memorial lecturer, 1993. Herzberg lecturer Columbia University. Kent Memorial lecturer Johns Hopkins University, 1990.
Board visitors Western Reserve Academy. Chairman Rhodes Scholarship Committee, Mid-Atlantic States. With Army of the United States, 1957-1959.
Judge James Beard Restaurant Awards. Member American Federation of television and Radio Artists, American Institute Wine and Food, Gridiron Club, Princeton Club, Century Association New York, Metropolitan Club (Washington).
Married Betsey Pinckney Brown, July 14, 1982. Stepchildren: Catherine Brown Collins, John Preston Brown.