Malcolm W. Browne

American, 1931–2012

BiographyMalcolm Browne (USA) worked with the Associated Press in Baltimore as a newsman from 1959 until 1961, when he was appointed chief IndoChina correspondent. In 1972 he became The New York Times correspondent for South America and subsequent assignments have taken him all over the world. He has published two books: The New Face of War and Muddy Boots and Redsocks, and his professional honors include a Pulitzer Prize (1964) and the George Polk award for courage in journalism. Browne ended his career as a foreign correspondent in 1977 and returned to The New York Times as a science writer.

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Science reporter and war correspondent Malcolm W. Browne of The New York Times started his career working in a chemistry lab. But not long after graduating, the outbreak of the Korean War put him on the road to journalism when he joined the army and was assigned to write for Pacific Stars and Stripes. He came home determined to pursue this new career. While working for the Associated Press in 1964, his reporting from Vietnam won him a Pulitzer Prize. Browne joined the Times in 1968 as a foreign correspondent, and later became a science reporter. He left for several years to serve as a senior editor for Discover magazine, returning to the Times science department in 1985. The Gulf War saw him at the front once again as a war correspondent, but for the most part, science has been his primary beat. Browne spent a year in New York as the Edward R. Murrow Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations. The recipient of an Overseas Press Club Award and a George Polk Memorial Award, he is the author of an engaging autobiography, Muddy Boots and Red Socks. In 1992, the American Chemical Society presented him its Grady-Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry for the Public.

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