Peter H. Wyden
Peter H. Wyden (October 2, 1923 – June 27, 1998)[1] was an American journalist and writer.
Life and career
Wyden was born Peter Weidenreich, in Berlin to a Jewish family. His mother, Helen (née Silberstein), was a concert singer, and his father, Erich Weidenreich, was a businessman. He attended the Goldschmidt School until he left Nazi Germany and went to the United States in 1937.[2][3] After studying at City University of New York, he served with the U.S. Army's Psychological Warfare Division in Europe during World War II.[4] After the war, he began a career in journalism, during which he worked as a reporter for The Wichita Eagle, a feature writer for The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Washington correspondent for Newsweek magazine, a contributing editor for The Saturday Evening Post in Chicago and San Francisco, articles editor for McCall's, and executive editor for Ladies' Home Journal.[4] He authored or coauthored nine books, and numerous articles that appeared in major magazines.[4] In 1970, he became a book publisher in New York City and Ridgefield, Connecticut.[4]
He was father of Senator Ron Wyden.[5] Franz Weidenreich, German anatomist and physical anthropologist, was one of his uncles.
Works
- Suburbia's Coddled Kids. 1962. New Jersey: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
- Bay of Pigs – The Untold Story. 1979. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0-671-24006-4 ISBN 0224017543 ISBN 978-0-671-24006-6
- Day One: Before Hiroshima and After. 1985. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1984 ISBN 0-671-46142-7
- Stella: One Woman's True Tale of Evil, Betrayal, and Survival in Hitler's Germany. Anchor Books, 1993. ISBN 978-0385471794
·″Wall-The Inside Story of Divided Berlin″-Simon & Schuster, 1989. ISBN 0-671-55510-3
References
- ↑ Sengupta, Somini (June 29, 1998). "Peter Wyden, 74, Journalist and Father of Oregon Senator". New York Times.
- ↑ Abrahamson, Irving (January 3, 1993). "She Saved Herself in the Holocaust By Betraying Others". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved January 2, 2014.
- ↑ Entry on Rootsweb.com, created by Robert Battle (battle@u.washington.edu)
- 1 2 3 4 "About the Author" bio on the dustjacket of Bay of Pigs, The Untold Story, Simon and Schuster, 1979.
- ↑ Simon, Mark (December 11, 1999). "Palo Alto to Honor Local Boy". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved December 22, 2009.