author
Heywood Broun
1888–1939
Best known for a sharp, lively newspaper voice, this American journalist mixed sports, politics, and everyday life with warmth and wit. His writing reached a huge audience, and his public advocacy helped make him a notable figure in both journalism and labor history.
5 Audiobooks
The Boy Grew Older
by Heywood Broun
Pieces of Hate; And Other Enthusiasms
by Heywood Broun
Seeing Things at Night
by Heywood Broun
The A. E. F.: With General Pershing and the American Forces
by Heywood Broun
Our Army at the Front
by Heywood Broun
About the author
Born in Brooklyn in 1888, Heywood Broun became one of the most recognizable newspaper columnists in New York. Reliable reference sources describe him as a journalist, sportswriter, editor, and commentator known for liberal social and political views, and note that he attended Harvard without graduating.
He wrote for major New York papers including the New York Tribune, New York World, and later the New York World-Telegram. Britannica and other historical references credit his widely read column, It Seems to Me, with helping build his reputation for an easy, conversational style that could move from sports and theater to public affairs.
Broun also played an important role outside the column page. Historical sources identify him as one of the founders of the American Newspaper Guild, reflecting the same outspoken, public-minded spirit that ran through his work. He died in 1939, but he remains remembered as a journalist who brought personality, humor, and conscience into American newspaper writing.