Stanley Karnow
| Stanley A. Karnow | |
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| Born |
February 4, 1925 Brooklyn, New York |
| Died | January 27, 2013 (aged 87) Potomac, Maryland |
| Residence | Potomac, Maryland |
| Education |
Harvard College, A.B. 1947 (European history and literature) Sorbonne, University of Paris, 1947–48 Ecole des Sciences Politiques, 1948–49. |
| Occupation | journalist, historian |
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| Spouse(s) | Claude Sarraute (m.July 15, 1948, div. 1955) Annete Kline (m. April 12, 1959, died 2009) |
| Children | Catherine Anne Karnow Michael Franklin Karnow (stepson) Curtis Edward Karnow |
| Parent(s) | Harry and Henriette Koeppel Karnow |
| Awards |
Pulitzer Prize in history (1990) Shorenstein Prize (2002) Overseas Press Club awards (1966,1968) |
| Military career | |
| Allegiance |
 United States
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| Service/branch | United States Army Air Forces |
| Years of service | 1943–1946 |
| Battles/wars | China Burma India Theater |
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Harvard College, A.B. 1947 (European history and literature) Sorbonne, University of Paris, 1947–48
Stanley Abram Karnow (February 4, 1925 – January 27, 2013) was an American journalist and historian. He is best known for his writings on the Vietnam War.
After serving with the United States Army Air Forces in the China Burma India Theater during World War II, he graduated from Harvard with a bachelor's degree in 1947; in 1947 and 1948 he attended the Sorbonne, and from 1948 to 1949 the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris. He then began his career in journalism as Time correspondent in Paris in 1950. After covering Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (where he was North Africa bureau chief in 1958-59), he went to Asia, where he spent the most influential part of his career. He was friends with Anthony Lewis and Bernard Kalb.
He covered Asia from 1959 until 1974 for Time, Life, the Saturday Evening Post, the London Observer, the Washington Post, and NBC News. Present in Vietnam in July 1959 when the first Americans were killed, he reported on the Vietnam War in its entirety. This landed him a place on the master list of Nixon political opponents. It was during this time that he began to write Vietnam: A History (1983).
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