Robert Spiers Benjamin Explained

Robert Spiers Benjamin (17 August 1917 – 20 September 2009) was a 20th-century journalist.^[1] He was a founding member of the Overseas Press Club. Following his death, the club named an award in his memory for 'Best reporting in any medium on Latin America'.^[2]

He wrote and edited several books^[3]

• The Inside Story, about the Overseas Press Club
• The Vacation Guide
• Eye Witness
• I am an American, a symposium of radio interviews with important naturalized Americans. Commissioned by the US Immigration and Naturalization Service
• Call to Adventure: True Tales of Adventures Set Down by the Men who Actually Experienced Them, 1935, an anthology for the Adventurers' Club

As a child, he was a boy scout.^[4]

Links

• Obituary by the Overseas Press Club

Notes and References

1. Web site: Paid Notice: Deaths BENJAMIN, ROBERT SPIERS.
2. Web site: 2012 Citation Recipients. 24 April 2013.
3. Web site: au:Benjamin, Robert Spiers, - Search Results . 2024-04-10 . search.worldcat.org.
4. Robert Spiers Benjamin, ed., Call to Adventure: True Tales of Adventures Set Down by the Men who Actually Experienced Them. London; Sydney: George G. Harrap & Co., 1935.